Mr Danny YUNG
Chief Executive
Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture

Mr Yung was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. He studied Architecture at the University of California University, Berkeley, and Urban Design and Urban Planning at Columbia University.

In 1982, he founded Zuni Icosahedron, a Hong Kong art collective, and has been Artistic Director since 1985. His theatre works with Zuni have staged in Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, London, Munich, New York, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and many other cities. In 2000, Yung organized an eleven weeks Festivals of Vision, a cross-cultural festival and conferences in Berlin and Hong Kong, which involved 1000 artists and cultural practitioners from 35 cities in Asia and Europe.

In 1993, he was appointed by the governor of Hong Kong to the ‘Working Group' which in 1995 became the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, a statutory body. He was reappointed to the Council in 2000. From 1997, Yung has initiated several important arts network in Asia - Asia Arts Net, Chinese City to City Cultural Forum, Asia Pacific Performing Arts Network. In 2002, he co-organized World Culture Forum, and became Vice-president in 2003.

He has also collaborated with UNESCO in initiating Arts in Education Observatory and the Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage, and is one of the founders of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity.