Ian Holliday

Ian Holliday is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly in relation to Myanmar. He is currently the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social and Political Science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1982, before completing his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Politics at New College, Oxford in 1989. He taught at University of Kent, University of Manchester, New York University, and City University of Hong Kong before teaching at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong for six years. He was appointed Vice-President of The University of Hong Kong in 2015.

Myanmar

Art

Holliday has been an advocate for assisting Burmese artists who have been repressed by the military government in Myanmar, in 2014 co-curating an art show for banned artists, as well as writing the book Painting Myanmar's Transition in 2021.

Books

Holliday is co-editor of the book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar and of Painting Myanmar's Transition. He is author of Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar, and coauthor of Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar. He is widely cited as an expert on Myanmar.