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The Authors

Yue Chim Richard Wong
Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political
Economy, School of Economics and Finance, The
University of Hong Kong

Professor Richard Wong is currently Professor of Economics and
Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy at the University
of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the political economy of property
and housing, productivity and population, the deep contradictions in Hong
Kong, and related public policies. He graduated from the University of
Chicago with a PH.D. in Economics. He is currently an advisor of Our Hong
Kong Foundation (OHKF) and a member of OHKF Research Council.

Wai Him William Tsang
Senior Researcher, Our Hong Kong Foundation

William Tsang is currently a Senior Researcher at Our Hong Kong
Foundation (OHKF), specialising in the research of land and housing policy
of Hong Kong. He was invited as speakers at various forums organised by
major academic institutions, commercial organisations and think tanks. He
has also appeared on numerous media interviews and programmes cover-
ing land supply and housing policy of Hong Kong, and is also an active com-
mentator of the subject in the printed media.

Prior to that, he worked at the HKSAR Government as an Econo-
mist. He is one of the founding members and research analysts of HKGold-
en50, an independent and non-profit policy research organisation. He gradu-
ated with an MPhil degree in Economics at The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree in the same subject.

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