Ms Josephine Siao Fong Fong, MBE

Renowned actress Ms Josephine Siao Fong Fong has an extraordinary film career spanning more than fifty years. She has starred in more than three hundred films and won twelve “Best Actress Awards”, most notably the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Summer Snow (1995).

Determined to go to university, Ms Siao left the film industry at the height of her career in 1968 and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications and Asian Studies at the Seton Hall University in the United States in 1973. In 1998, she received a Master’s degree in Child Psychology at Regis University, Denver, United States. She was a counselor and psychologist at Queen Mary Hospital from 1998 to 2002.

Ms Siao founded the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation in 1998, with the mission to protect children under 18 from child sexual abuse and to raise public awareness of this grave social problem in Hong Kong. Serving as the President and former Chairperson of the Foundation, she has been actively involved in fundraising, as well as writing and producing a series of five education programmes for local primary and secondary schools, teaching students how to protect themselves and providing information to the general public on the importance of child protection against sexual abuse. Ms Siao was also former Chairperson of the Advisory Council of Hong Kong Association of the Deaf Centre and Advisory Council Member of the Center for Child Development of the Hong Kong Baptist University.

She is the author of several popular books on English learning, including Easy English Easy Job (1994), which was co-written with Mr William Smyly. A new edition of Yang Xiang, her top-selling book on Western etiquette, was released in 2012.

In 1997, Ms Siao was honoured as Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the British government in recognition of her contribution to the community and the film industry. She became an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2000, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University of Hong Kong in 2002. In 2009, at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards, Ms Siao received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr Chung King Fai, SBS

Dr Samuel Lam Pak Nin

Dr Humphrey Leung Kwong Wai, JP

Dr Dennis Ng Wang Pun, BBS, MH

Ms Josephine Siao Fong Fong, MBE

Professor Wang Jianhua

Mr Alexander Woo Chung Ho

Dr Royce Yuen Man Chun, JP

(in alphabetical order of last name)