Born and raised in the grassroots level, Wayne used to live in subdivided units and even once sleep on the street. He believes social and educational innovation is the way to poverty alleviation and social mobility. Wayne serves as a member of Hong Kong Government’s Commission on Poverty, Social Enterprise Advisory Committee, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund and Community Care Fund. He is an alum of the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, the only Asian in Facebook’s Youth Advisory Committee, the President & Co-Founder of Global Changemakers Alliance and the Person-in-Charge of Liter of Light (Greater China). He is named the first Honorary Ambassador of the University of Turku and the University of Lapland, Finland. He is also a member of Education Committee of Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Wayne is the recipient of Silver Award of SD4 (Quality Education) Track at UNLEASH Innovation Lab, Hong Kong Youth Service Award, Hong Kong Volunteer Award and Hong Kong Spirit Ambassadors. He translated and deployed the “Suspended coffee” concept which reached over 200 million Chinese-speaking people via social media and inspired thousands of entities to provide “suspended products or services”.

1. 周佩波 Wayne Chau
Founder, Agent of Change
Be the Agent of Change

2. Poverty in Hong Kong

6. •Founder & CEO, Agent of Change Co. Ltd (Social Enterprise)
•Founder & Chairman, Agent of Change Foundation Ltd.
•Founder & MD, FinEdu Ltd.
•Member, Commission on Poverty, HKSAR Govt.
•Member, Community Care Fund, HKSAR Govt.
•Member, Social Enterprise Advisory Committee, HKSAR Govt.
•Member, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Fund, HKSAR Govt.
•Member, Global Youth Advisory Committee, Facebook
•Member, Education Committee, The Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
•President & Co-Founder, Global Changemakers Alliance
•Honorary Ambassador, University of Turku, Finland
•Honorary Ambassador, University of Lapland, Finland
•Fellow, International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State (2017)
•SDG Talent & World Number 2 in Quality Education, UNLEASH Innovation Lab (2018)
•Advisor, Our Hong Kong Foundation
•Advisor, Hong Kong Shared Good Values
•Founding Member, Business for Social Good Platform
Wayne CHAU
周佩波
Poverty Alleviation
Quality Education

7. You have NO future.
You will NEVER succeed.

8. Broken Family｜
Immigrant｜
Depressed｜
Poor｜
Almost a Dropout｜
Street sleeper｜
No Network

9. Before jumping,
an old lady called me

10. Sum of 10 Years
Dignity & Hope
Confidence & Courage

11. Confidence ¦ Courage
Chances ¦ Choices
Empowerment - 5Cs Model
Change

12. High Quality
Affordable Price
Daily Necessities

13. of the people
by the people
for the people

14. Staff Empowerment

15. Expanding Impact

17. Diversified Life-education Musicals

18. Education without Boundary

19. BE THE
CHANGE