Joseph Wong Wing-ping GBS, JP ( Hong Kong language: 王永平; born 25 July 1948) was the Secretary for Education Department,

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and the

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. Wong completed his secondary school education at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, an eminent all-male

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Jesuit school in

. He graduated from the

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in 1969. He also attended a one-year postgraduate course at the

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in 1974 and an eight-week Executive Program at Stanford University in 1989. Wong is a career

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and was previously Hong Kong's permanent representative to the

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(GATT) and the

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(WTO). He has also been a professor at the

and the

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. He continues to provide public commentary through

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s in local media, such as South China Morning Post,

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and EJ Insight.Why Tung, Tsang and Leung all failed in governance
Joseph Wong Wing-ping, EJ Insight, 17 Jun 2015

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