Ir Dr Wong Kwok Keung, Chairman and CEO of the Kum Shing Group, is a staunch supporter of lifelong learning and social causes. In 2016, at the age of 70, he obtained his Doctor of Business Administration degree from PolyU, although his acquaintance with the institution dates backs 50 years.

When he finished secondary school, Dr Wong was selected from among 1,630 applicants for admission to the three-year Higher Diploma in Structural Engineering programme offered by the Hong Kong Technical College, forerunner of PolyU. But after only one year of study he was deregisted as a student because he fell 0.6 below the pass mark in one subject.

Despite this educational setback, Dr Wong laboured on. He worked full-time with a small subcontracting firm set up by his father and took a part-time civil engineering degree course at another local college. Still focused on expanding his horizons, three years later he went to Canada to pursue a Master's degree in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, and later a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary.

In 1985, Dr Wong returned to the subcontracting firm in Hong Kong, giving his all to help transfom it into the present Kum Shing, a major provider of engineering, power, utility and transportation services and solutions, with an annual turnover of HK$1.6 billion. In 1996, he established the WKF Charity and Education Foundation in the name of his father. Over the years, the Foundation has supported the building of more than 100 schools in Mainland China as well as other education, health care and philanthropic initiatives in Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Dr Wong won the Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award in 2017. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame established by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 2010, and received a Director of the Year award from the Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2014.