Professor Wan Ki Chow is currently the Advisor to President and Distinguished Chair Professor in Aviation Safety at Civil Aviation Flight University of China, and an Emeritus Professor (Architectural Science and Fire Engineering) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before retired in 2019, he was a Chair Professor of Architecture Science and Fire Engineering and Head of the Department of Building Services Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering and a Non-Official Justice of the Peace appointed by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. He is the Founding President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)-Hong Kong Chapter since 2002, and the President of the Asia-Oceania Association for Fire Science and Technology since 2007. He was elected to be Chair of SFPE Asia-Oceania Chapters Coordinating Group in 2015 and a member of the Board of Directors of the SFPE from 2016 to 2019. He was awarded the Lifetime Contribution Award by the Asia-Oceania Association for Fire Science and Technology, Gold Medal of the HKIE and First Prize of Natural Science Award of Anhui Province, China.