Keynote Speaker

Dr CHENG Cho-ming, JP

Director of the Hong Kong Observatory

Biography

Dr Cheng graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics and Mathematics, and subsequently obtained a PhD degree in Physics in 1989. He joined the Hong Kong Observatory in 1989 as a Scientific Officer. From 1990 onwards, he had been involved in weather forecasting, TV weather presentation, hydrometeorology, radar and satellite meteorology, and aerodrome meteorological observing system, etc. He was promoted as the Assistant Director in 2011 to take charge of the Weather Forecasting and Warning Services Branch, responsible for public weather services and development of the Observatory website and “MyObservatory” mobile app, forecasting technique research, etc. Dr Cheng succeeded as the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory in 2020.