Prof Rebecca Choy Yung

Prof Rebecca Choy Yung is a business entrepreneur turned serial social entrepreneur.

Rebecca was a pioneer of the convention and exhibition industry in Hong Kong, China, Asia and Europe since the early 1980s. She successfully founded, branded and organised over a dozen world-renowned international trade fairs and conventions, covering a wide spread of industries. Before running her own business, Rebecca was editor of the first Official Annual Report of the PRC, the first inflight magazine of the CAAC and other books on China. Rebecca received her B.SoSc. from Bristol University (UK) and EMBA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Since changing her career path over 17 years ago, Rebecca has devoted her full effort to promoting social innovation and social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and Greater China, integrating the civic, business, social philanthropy, government, academic and professional sectors together to developing a collaborative eco-system to solve societal issues. She has initiated and orchestrated the following movements with social missions to bring about positive change:

• Golden Age Movement
  Using social and business innovations to address the challenges posed by demographic changes, fostering the development of smart ageing cities and empowering Golden Agers (people 45+) as a new force of social change‎.
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• Education Innovation Movement
  Engaging and synergising stakeholders in education to come up with innovative ideas for education and social entrepreneurship; regenerating the learning eco-system and promoting a positive learning culture.
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• Business Innovation Movement
  Promoting shared value, ESG and B Corps, and changing mainstream business into a driving force of social good.

Rebecca is Founding Chair of Golden Age Foundation; Past Chair of Social Enterprise Summit; Co-Founder & Vice-Chair of Education for Good; Co-Founder & Convener of Ednovators, Co-Founder of Dream Impact Hong Kong and Co-Founder of B Lab (HK & Macau). She sits on the Advisory Panel on Silver Economy of the HKSAR Government, as well as Advisor and Executive Members of a dozen NGOs and social enterprises, including Our Hong Kong Foundation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Committee on Social Responsibility & Sustainable Development), Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Tung Wah College, Institute of ESG Benchmark etc. Over the years, Rebecca spares no effort in training young and Golden Age social entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and the Mainland. Rebecca has published 9 books, 2 academic articles and took part in various researches and surveys. She was awarded the 2021 Hong Kong Outstanding Active Ageing Women Award, 2022 Greater Bay Area Outstanding Women Philanthropist Award, 2023-2024 Ten Social Entrepreneurs of the Year (China) and The JESSICA Most Successful Women Award 2025.