Kwan Mei-Po

Kwan is the Choh-Ming Li professor of geography and resource management, and director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the Royal Geographical Society, and the Geographical Society of China. She has received numerous prestigious awards and honors from AAG, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, the Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography. She served as an editor of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years. Kwan has made groundbreaking contributions to research on environmental health, human mobility, smart cities, and geographic information science (GIScience).