Dr Asif Hameed is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Asif’s interests lie in constitutional law, political theory and international law. He took his Law degrees at Oxford and worked at four successive UK universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Asif is currently investigating whether high-stakes political questions can be addressed impartially and, if so, how far they should be. He looks forward to reflecting on these issues in Asia and in Hong Kong, which has a particularly rich concentration of academics thinking about the relations between democratic and meritocratic forms of government.