Gloria Chang

Gloria Chang
Chang in 2014
President of the Hong Kong University Students' Union
In office 2000–2000
Preceded by	Chan King-chi
Succeeded by	Bibi Ngai
Personal details
Born	1977 (age 48–49)
Education	St. Mary's Canossian College
Alma mater	University of Hong Kong (BSocSc)

Gloria Chang
Traditional Chinese	張韻琪
Simplified Chinese	张韵琪
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Yùnqí Yue: Cantonese Jyutping zoeng1 wan6 kei4

Gloria Chang Wan-ki (Chinese: 張韻琪; born 1977^[1]) is a Hong Kong environmental activist who served as president of the Hong Kong University Students' Union in 2000. She was a main critic of the university leaders during the "Pollgate" controversy concerning government pressure on Robert Chung Ting-yiu, who conducted polls.^[2][3]

She was a major contributor to the resignation of the former Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Professor Cheng Yiu-chung.^[4][5] Chang was arrested for "illegal assembly" while protesting university fees in 2000.^[6][7] As of February 2007, she was working at Greenpeace Hong Kong as a climate and energy campaigner.^[8][9] In 2011, she travelled to the North Pole as part of her work with Greenpeace.^[10] She is also a Roman Catholic.^[11]

Chang, along with HKU politics professor Joseph Chan were the middlemen in coordinating the televised debate between protest leaders and government officials amid the 2014 Umbrella Movement.^[12] She opposed the confrontational, non-cooperative approach of radical protesters and called for dialogue and compromise on both sides.

References

1. ourvoice. "張韻琪 辣椒成熟時". 仁聞報 | Our Voice. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
2. "Activists Vs. Tycoons". Asiaweek Vol. 26 No. 46. 8 December 2000. Archived from the original on 24 April 2001. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
3. Chung, Yulanda. "Livelihood Rules". Asiaweek Vol. 26 No. 37. Archived from the original on 15 May 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
4. University of Hong Kong (2003). Growing with Hong Kong: the University and its graduates: the first 90 years. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN 962-209-613-1. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
5. "Academic connections". The Standard. 21 February 2008. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
6. Lau, Eli; Loo, Grace (28 September 2000). "Activist, students face prosecution threat". The Standard. Retrieved 7 April 2009. ^{[dead link]}
7. Schloss, Glenn (6 October 2000). "Force's summer of discontent". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2009. But student leader Gloria Chang Wan-ki, one of the students arrested on both occasions,...
8. "Work is a passion, not a chore, for Greenpeace energy activist". South China Morning Post. 31 October 2004. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
9. "Chief Executive prattles climate change | Greenpeace China". Press Release. Greenpeace China. 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 22 May 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2009. Greenpeace Campaigner Gloria Chang criticizes, "HK's inaction on the issue...."
10. "Gloria Chang". South China Morning Post. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
11. 始終係天主 (in Chinese). Hong Kong Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre. 13 June 2001. Archived from the original on 25 November 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
12. Cheung, Chor-yung (2017). ""One Country, Two Systems" after the Umbrella Movement: Problems and Prospects". Asian Education and Development Studies. 6 (4): 389. doi:10.1108/AEDS-10-2015-0055. ISSN 2046-3162.