George Chen is a practitioner/scholar with over two decades of expertise across media, technology, and public policy. Currently, George is Managing Director (Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan Offices) and Co-Chair of Digital Practice for The Asia Group, advising many Fortune 500 clients on geopolitics, national security, and tech/policy related issues. Previously, George was Meta/Facebook's first and most senior policy leader for Greater China, Mongolia and Central Asia. Earlier in his career, George was in various editorial and management positions for media organizations including the South China Morning Post and Reuters. 

Concurrently, George is also a Senior Fellow of Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). George has been on the HKU faculty since March 2023. At the HKU, George co-leads the "Tech for Good" initiative and teaches "Digital Governance and Society" (POLI8034 / SLGP7018, six credits) for Master students.

George received his Master’s degree of international and public affairs (with distinction) in 2012 from the HKU where he remains a doctoral candidate for his research on misinformation. George has been named a Salzburg Global Fellow (2024), Visiting Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei (2023), and Yale World Fellow at Yale University (2014). He's also an awardee of Mongolian President’s “Medal of Friendship” (2022), one of the country's highest honors given to foreigners. George has been also on the Board of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong since 2019.