Chair Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Nelson Chow is currently an Honorary Professor of Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong.
He was previously lecturer at Department of Social Work, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1977−1983). He was the senior lecturer in Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong (1983−1990). He became the Head of Department of Social Work and Social Administration from1990 to 1993. He was appointed as the Associate Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1990 –2001 and he was the Chair Professor since 1991. His research areas include social security, comparative social welfare, elderly, young people, family.
Thirty Years of Research and Observation on Poverty in Hong Kong