Prof. Anthony G.O. Yeh, FHKIP, FRTPI, FPIA, FRICS, FCILT, FBCS, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hong Kong Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) and Academy of Social Sciences UK is Chan To-Hann Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Chair Professor of Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of GIS Research Centre, and former Dean of Graduate School, Director of Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, Institute of Transport Studies, and Head of Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. His main areas of specialisation are urban planning and development in Hong Kong and China and the applications of geographic information systems (GIS) as planning and management support system for smart cities. He received the UN-HABITAT Lecture Award in 2008 for his outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in the human settlements field. His projects have won a gold medal in the 2018 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions and gold award in the 2022 Hong Kong ICT Smart Logistics Award. He has been President of the Asia GIS Association, Founding Secretary-General of the Asian Planning Schools Association and Asia GIS Association, Founding President of the Hong Kong GIS Association, Chairman of the Hong Kong Geographical Association, Vice President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, and Chairman of the Geographic Information Science Commission of the International Geographic Union (IGU).