Senior Ecologist

Ken graduated with a M.Sc. degree in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants from the University of Edinburgh and received his B.Sc. degree in Ecology & Biodiversity and Environmental Science from the University of Hong Kong. His postgraduate study was awarded the School of Biological Science Bursary Award by the University of Edinburgh. During his undergraduate study, he was awarded the Hong Kong Natural History Society Prize for Outstanding Student in Ecology and Biodiversity and HKSAR Reaching Out Award.

Ken has taken a prominent role in facilitating development applications, including Designated Projects (DPs) under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO) (Cap. 499), and planning applications under Sections 12A and 16 of the Town Planning Ordinance (TPO) (Cap. 131) requiring ecological surveys and impact assessment, and providing inputs in public comments on statutory submissions as an ecological consultant.  Once serving as a Nature Conservation Officer in the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, providing professional comments on development applications, including the abovementioned DPs and planning applications, was one of his major duties to ensure compliance of statutory requirements.

Furthermore, he also exercised his ecological expertise in facilitating the discharge of Environmental Permit and planning approval conditions under EIAO and TPO respectively, such as the preparation and submission of transplantation and translocation proposals with monitoring regime to relevant authorities.  Furthermore, he has been involved in engineering design requiring ecological input, such as wildlife corridors and compensatory wetlands and woodlands.  He also had experience in liaising with non-governmental organizations to deliver public engagement and outreaching programmes as a Country Parks Officer in the AFCD.

Apart from identifying local plant, herpetofauna, butterfly, odonate and firefly species, Ken has been particularly involved in exploring bat diversity using bat detectors and identifying the echolocation calls emitted by the echolocating bat species in Hong Kong after being awarded the Certificate of Bat Acoustics Analysis by BatAbility.  In addition, He is also a Certified Arborist, a professional member of the Institute of Environmental Impact Assessment and a skilled user of ArcGIS.