- Chair Professor, City University of Hong Kong
- Director of State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution
Kenneth Leung is currently Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution in China, which will be renamed as the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Health effective from 1 July 2025. His research spans marine pollution, ecotoxicology, marine conservation, and ecosystem restoration. Professor Leung has authored over 340 peer-reviewed publications. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to aquatic ecology in the Asia-Pacific region, he was awarded the 19th Biwako Prize for Ecology by the Ecological Society of Japan. He is a Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), the Royal Society of Biology, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since June 2022, he has been leading the Global Estuaries Monitoring Programme, which is endorsed by the United Nations as an official Decade Action under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Owing to his professional achievements and dedicated community services, he was selected as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” for Hong Kong by Junior Chamber International Hong Kong in 2010 and appointed as a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2018.