Doryun Chong, M+ Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator, oversees all curatorial activities and programmes at M+, including acquisitions, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, and digital initiatives encompassing the museum's three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art, as well as the thematic area of Hong Kong visual culture. Since joining M+ as the inaugural Chief Curator in 2013, Chong has led the transformative growth of the M+ Collections and steered the curatorial direction and pedagogical practices of the museum's exhibitions and programmes to foreground the transcultural and transnational narratives of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture.

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Septime Webre, Artistic Director at Hong Kong Ballet (HKB), is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. He joined HKB as Artistic Director in July 2017 after seventeen years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet (US) from 1999 to 2016, and six years as Artistic Director for the American Repertory Ballet in Princeton (US) from 1993 to 1999.

Much sought-after as a choreographer, Webre’s works appear in the repertoires of ballet companies globally. Webre’s new works for HKB, Romeo + Juliet, set in 1960s Hong Kong, and The Nutcracker, set in early twentieth century Hong Kong, world premiered in June and December 2021, respectively.

Debra Tan, Director and Head of CWR, built the organisation from an idea into a 'go-to' resource in the global climate water risk conversation. Tan has written reports that were ground-breaking and instrumental in understanding not just China's but future global water challenges. They are widely cited by media, finance to the IPCC. Tan has been published by SpringerNature, Palgrave MacMillan, and China policy journals. She is also a contributing author to the latest IPCC report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Tan sits on committees including CDP, CDSB (now IFRS), MNCs, and judges the UNPRI awards. Before CWR, Tan spent over a decade in finance.

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