Resume of Career

Ir Paul Poon is the ex-Vice Chancellor of CLP Power Academy. He held overall responsibility for the development and operations of the Academy which aims to better meeting the engineering requirements of CLP Power Hong Kong and the demand for engineering professionals for the power sector, while at the same time providing secondary school leavers who do not possess a formal tertiary education qualification an upward mobility career pathway in the engineering industry by offering a range of accredited programmes designed for young people in Hong Kong with varying academic achievements and work experience. The latest initiatives of the Academy included offering bridging programmes to allow students to obtain professional qualifications of the Chinese Mainland, including the Greater Bay Area.

Ir Poon has over 50 years’ experience in the power and electrical engineering industry. He joined CLP Power Hong Kong in 1981. Since then, he had held various management positions in CLP. He was the Managing Director of CLP Power Hong Kong and Chairman of CLP Engineering for four years before assuming his Vice Chancellor position in 2017. He is currently the Managing Director of Poon’s Engineering Limited.

Ir Poon is the ex-Deputy Chairman of Council and Court of the Hong Kong Baptist University, a Council Member of the Hong Kong Management Association, the Supervisor of K S Lo Secondary School, an Advisor of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency Finance Committee and the Our Hong Kong Foundation, and the Deputy Chairman of the Fellowship Committee of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He serves on the Advisory Committee of various tertiary education institutes, and as the Hon Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering. He is also the Founding Chairman of the Corporate Tech Academy Network of Hong Kong, an Honorary Professor of The University of Hong Kong, a Professor-level Senior Engineer in the Chinese Mainland, and a Fellow of various professional institutions. Ir Poon was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from The University of Hong Kong and the Vocational Training Council, and the Medal of Honour from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.