Alexander Wai

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Wai. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Alexander Wai and the Chinese-style name is Wai Ping-kong.

Alexander Wai Ping-kong (Chinese: 衞炳江) is a former Deputy President and Provost of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who served from 1 March 2020.^[2] He had served the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for over 20 years since 1996.^[3] He assumed the position of President and Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong Baptist University on 1 February 2021.^[3][4]

Ir Prof Alexander Wai
衞炳江
6th President and Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong Baptist University
Assuming office 1 February 2021
Chancellor	Carrie Lam
Succeeding	Roland Chin
Deputy President and Provost of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
In office 1 March 2020 – 30 November 2020
President	Teng Jin-guang
Chancellor	Carrie Lam
Preceded by	Philip Chan
Succeeded by	Wing-tak Wong[1]
Vice President (Research Development) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
In office 1 July 2010 – 29 February 2020
President	Timothy W. Tong, Teng Jin-guang
Chancellor	Leung Chun-ying, Carrie Lam
Personal details
Education	University of Hong Kong (BSc) University of Maryland, College Park (PhD)
Website	Biography (archive)

In late July 2021, at his first press conference since taking up his position at Baptist University and slightly over a year after the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Wai said that the university had no plans to limit research on areas such as Hong Kong independence and human rights abuses in Xinjiang; management would not advocate their colleagues breaking the law, however. At the same time, Baptist University together with at least two other public universities in Hong Kong introduced mandatory undergraduate education on national security in the form of seminars and talks.^[5]

Campus visit during the November 2019 siege

In November 2019, during the Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University which marked an escalation of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, Wai, who was vice-president of the university at the time, visited the campus together with council chairman Lam Tai-fai and fellow vice-president Ben Young. As they were reaching the communal building, they were stopped by a student who complained about the management figures having failed in their duties by not helping the students. When Wai was told to help clean the kitchen whose cleanliness he had criticized in response, he agreed and cleaned the kitchen for around 30 minutes.^[6]