Citation
(2023), "Editorial Preface to the special issue", Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 2-2. https://doi.org/10.1108/PAP-06-2023-124
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2023, Peter K.W. Fong
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The PAP journal was first published in 1992 and has been published online in open access on the Emerald Insight Platform since 2018. This year marks the 31st anniversary of its first launch and 6th anniversary of its online publication with Emerald. It now publishes three issues with at least one special issue and more than twenty articles per year.
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In this special issue on “Pandemic Management Strategies and Outcomes in Asian States”, we are delighted to have Professor Ahmed Shafiqul Huque from McMaster University and Dr. Habib Zafarullah from University of New England as Guest Editors. The eight articles focus on various pandemic management strategies and outcomes in Asia including New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, India and Pakistan written by academics and specialists. Please refer to the Introduction to the special issue for brief descriptions of each article. We hope this special issue will make significant contributions to the understanding of pandemic management for policy makers, scholars, and practitioners in various countries around Asia.
Peter K.W. Fong
Editor-in-Chief, PAP Journal
President, Hong Kong Public Administration Association
About the Editor-in-Chief
Professor Peter K.W. Fong, PhD (New York University), is President of Hong Kong Public Administration Association and Editor-in-Chief of PAP Journal. He teaches strategic management and supervises DBA students’ dissertations of University of Wales TSD. He was appointed as Advisory/Visiting Professors by Tongji, Tsinghua, Renmin, and Tianjin Universities, Chinese University of HK and HK Poly U. He holds memberships of HK Institute of Planners & Planning Institute Australia. He was a Teaching Fellow of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge; Director of EMBA programme, HKU Business School; Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, HKU; Executive Vice President of City University of Macao; Honorary Professor, China Training Centre for Senior Civil Servants in Beijing; Studies Director, Civil Service Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government; Visiting Scholar, MIT; and Consultants, the World Bank and Delta Asia Bank. Peter K.W. Fong can be contacted at: fongpeter@netvigator.com