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YAU previously served as a Professional Consultant for UN, Geneva. She has also been selected as a member of China’s National Talent Reserve Pool for International Organizations.

She brings together academic research, international public policy and educational practice. With academic training spanning Peking University, the Geneva Graduate Institute and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she pursued doctoral research in Governance and Policy Science, her work has consistently focused on how policy and global systems shape opportunities for the next generation.

Her professional and research experience across international organisations and policy institutions has given her a distinctive understanding of how academic knowledge connects with real-world decision-making.

At Summit Global, she translates this perspective into education: developing long-term academic and personal development pathways, building international and institutional partnerships, and creating opportunities for students to engage meaningfully with global affairs, research and public-purpose initiatives.

“What we owe the next generation is not a script for success, but the tools to write their own. Young people should be prepared not only to enter the world as it is, but to understand it, question it, and eventually shape it, with rigour in thought, clarity in expression, breadth of perspective, and the moral seriousness to ask what their talents are for.”

Ms. Adelle CHAN combines rigorous academic training with extensive first-hand experience in education design, learner development and research-informed pedagogy. A graduate of the University of Cambridge in Development Studies and The University of Hong Kong in Economics and Finance with First-Class Honours, her academic background has trained her to approach education with the same discipline applied to serious research: identifying the right questions, understanding evidence, and designing interventions with clear purpose.

Her work has spanned academic advising, multilingual education, youth-development programmes, educational technology and learning research. From founding educational initiatives for young people in Hong Kong to conducting learner research and developing data-informed language-learning systems, she has worked closely with students across very different backgrounds, abilities and stages of development.

At Summit Global, Adelle leads the academic coordination and quality framework behind student programmes. Her focus is on understanding how a student learns, where genuine strengths and gaps lie, and what sequence of academic training, guidance and exposure will create the greatest long-term value. She brings particular attention to curriculum coherence, communication, research skills and the development of independent learners.

“Strong educational guidance should never reduce a student to grades, rankings or an application profile. It should help the student become more capable, more intellectually independent and better prepared for the opportunities ahead.”