Regional Trustee


Suet-lin Shirley Hung is currently Professor & Head and Director of the Social Work Practice and Mental Health Centre, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University. By background, she is a social worker and community worker. She has been practicing community work for about twenty years before she joined the academia. She is teaching community development, gender and social work as well narrative practice at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Shirley was the first Country Correspondent of the IACD. She is very proud to be a long term member of the Association and is keen to present the IACD to community workers and social work teaching institutions in East Asia.


IACD has members across the East Asia Region, where there is a long tradition of community development especially in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. We have run conferences in both Seoul and Hong Kong. In 2007 together with East Asian partners, we issued the Hong Kong Declaration. This set out our action priorities for supporting community development across East Asia. In 2016 we appointed our first Country Correspondent Hung Suet-lin to cover China, she together with former East Asia Trustee KK Fung have been raising awareness of CD and IACD in the country through a series of presentations and to improve our understanding of development there in both the rapidly growing cities and the rural area.