George Chen is a practitioner/scholar with over two decades of expertise across media, technology, and public policy. Currently, George is Managing Director (Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan Offices) and Co-Chair of Digital Practice for The Asia Group, advising many Fortune 500 clients on geopolitics, national security, and various regulatory issues. Previously, George was Meta/Facebook’s first and most senior policy leader for Greater China, Mongolia and Central Asia for more than seven years. Earlier in his career, George was in various editorial and management positions for media organizations including the South China Morning Post and Reuters for more than a decade. Concurrently, George is also a Senior Fellow of Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. George teaches “Digital Society and Governance” for Master students at the HKU and Schwarzman.
George received his Master’s degree of international and public affairs (with distinction) in 2012 from the HKU where he remains a doctoral candidate for his research on misinformation. George has been named a Salzburg Global Fellow (2024), Visiting Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei (2023), an alumnus of U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program (2015), Yale World Fellow at Yale University (2014) and an Asia 21 Young Leadership Fellow of the Asia Society (2007). In 2022 George was awarded the “Medal of Friendship” by the President of Mongolia, one of the country’s highest and most rare honours for foreigners. George has been on the Board of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong since 2019. George is an author of three books and he speaks Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Shanghai dialect and English.