Ian Holliday (Chinese: 何立仁; Cantonese Yale: hòh laahp yàhn; Jyutping: Ho4 Lap6jan4; pinyin: Hé Lìrén; born 1960) is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly child sex tourism in Myanmar.
He is currently the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) of The University of Hong Kong.
[1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Social and Political Science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1982, before completing his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Politics at New College, Oxford in 1989.
[1][2] He served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong for six years.
[1] Holliday has been an advocate for assisting Burmese artists who have been repressed by the military government in Myanmar, in 2014 co-curating an art show for banned artists,[3] as well as writing the book Painting Myanmar's Transition in 2021.