Li Chong is Senior Lecturer and Director of German Programme at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD in Psycholinguistics and Teaching German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. As one of Hong Kong's foremost Chinese-German-English academics, she has published research on German language education, multilingual language acquisition and intercultural studies by leading international and peer-reviewed journals and reputable publishers. She leads the Knowledge Exchange & Outreach Subcommittee of the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity at HKU. She has also been appointed a specialist panel member of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications and committed herself to serve the education community.

Loretta Kim is Associate Professor and Director of the China Studies programme at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong. She is a historian of late imperial and modern China. Her primary research areas include the comparative history of borderlands and frontiers, Sino-Russian cultural relations, and Chinese ethnic minority languages and literatures. She is the author of Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration (2019) and The Russian Orthodox Community in Hong Kong: Religion, Ethnicity, and Intercultural Relations (2021). Loretta also works on the preservation of languages with relatively small user populations and support for ethnic and other social identities that reflect the internal diversity of these groups and organic changes to “tradition” that occur in response to political and economic factors through her research.  

Mercedes Vázquez teaches Spanish language and Film and Cultural Studies at The School of Modern Languages and Cultures of The University of Hong Kong. Her long-standing interest in promoting intercultural communication and developing students’ global competence crystallized in numerous cultural projects such as film screenings and discussions with filmmakers from different regions of the world, talks, seminars, and courses involving virtual collaboration with overseas students. This TDLEG project constitutes a new stage in the promotion of understanding between people from both different and similar cultures across the world, and the celebration of diversity at multiple levels.