Our Advisors

Dickie Liang-Hong Ke is a recognised expert and practitioner on entrepreneurship and innovation. He is a renowned veteran of digital business creation, digital disruption, and digital transformation. Dickie‘s main areas of expertise also include new venture creation, digital platform establishment, and business eco-systems building.

As a technologist with over 30 years of experience in global technology management and advisory, Dickie has held executive and leadership roles at Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson Business Consulting, where he established numerous globally pioneering businesses such as cloud computing and mobile internet, working closely with strategic clients such as China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Japan NTT, and other leading internet players in China, to together shape the future of the TMT industry over the years.

Dickie is not only a very active strategy and leadership advisor, speaker, executive educator and coach to many large corporations but also consults for disruptive start-ups and fast growing companies in all stages of development, from founding to IPO. He is also a senior advisor who spearheads business development in China for Europe-based strategy advisory firm Evolution Ltd, founded by Professor Michael Jacobides - one of the Forbes Thinkers50 top global management thinkers, providing Advisory Services and Thought Leadership to the corporate world.

Dickie is a Sloan Fellow, with a MSc in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School. He serves as Adjunct Faculty and Guest Lecturer / Speaker in leading universities and business schools in Europe and Asia, focusing on strategy, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, agility, and technology management. Besides playing the role of a mentor, he also serves as a member of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       the candidates selection panel, while also acting as admissions interviewer, in prestigious post-graduate leadership degree programs, such as Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman Scholars and the London Business School Sloan Fellowship program.

Dickie has co-written numerous business cases and an influential book, and most recently, “Innovation and Agility at Tencent’s WeChat” (Harvard Business Publishing, The European Case Centre) - co-authored with Professor Julian Birkinshaw, as well as “Handbook on China and Globalization” (Edward Elgar). Dickie’s works have been published or quoted by Harvard Business Review, Think (LBS Thought Leadership Magazine), South China Morning Post, China Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and others. Dickie appears on media outlets such as CGTN, and he speaks regularly at business conferences in China, the UK, and Europe.

Bruce Au is the Secretary-General of the Yidan Prize Foundation, where he collaborates closely with the Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, and Judging Committee. He is dedicated to fostering a global community of Yidan Prize laureates and partners, merging theory and practice to establish new standards of excellence in teaching and learning, ultimately contributing to brighter futures for local communities.

With over twenty years of experience in strategic advisory, management, and philanthropy, Bruce has successfully mobilized diverse talents for impactful initiatives. Previously, he was a lead grant-maker at The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, focusing on education and youth development, and played a key role in the CoolThink@JC initiative, which integrated computational thinking into Hong Kong's primary schools.

Bruce also served as the founding Director of Finance and Operations at Character Lab, a nonprofit advancing character education. His background includes strategy consulting at Dalberg Advisors and being an inaugural Global Governance Futures fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation, starting his career as an investment banking analyst on Wall Street.

Bruce earned a Bachelor of Science from MIT and a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a proud graduate of Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.

Originally trained as a linguist, Caroline is a Cambridge-trained educator with extensive experience across a range of international curricula, including IBDP, GCSE/A-Level, the French and Spanish International Baccalaureates, and Chinese/English bilingual programmes.

She has served as an international examiner for Cambridge English Exams and the International Option of the French Baccalaureate in countries including Spain, the UK, Hong Kong, France, Indonesia, the United States, and Thailand.

In leadership and innovation roles, Caroline has led English departments, reformed multilingual school libraries, and developed TED in Beijing. She has also collaborated with journalists from The Financial Times, the BBC, and the South China Morning Post to strengthen students' research, presentation, and persuasive writing skills.

She initiated a series of AI-focused talks featuring specialists from Microsoft Research Asia, Tsinghua University, CGTN, and Greenkern, bridging classroom learning with real-world industry and academic insight.

Caroline believes in cultivating a warm, creative, and well-supported learning environment where all students can make meaningful academic progress. While strategic exam preparation is important, she champions project-based learning that develops critical thinking, creative exploration, lateral problem-solving, and long-term planning skills.

Mindful of the butterfly effect—the idea that small actions can have far-reaching consequences—Caroline is passionate about exploring how language and literature shape our worldview, and how the stories we tell about ourselves can, in turn, shape the world. She is equally committed to introducing sustainable solutions that thoughtfully balance the needs of people, places, and profit.