Yolanda Ma

University of Hong Kong

China

Yolanda Ma is an award-winning professional with extensive cross-disciplinary experience in digital media, data journalism, social innovation, and international development. She is currently teaching at the journalism school of the University of Hong Kong, with a focus on the intersection of frontier technology and media/ journalism. Before joining HKU, Yolanda worked with the United Nations in Bangkok and New York, where she worked on digital transformation and social innovation initiatives which impacted more than 100 countries. She was the first social media editor at the South China Morning Post, and later led pioneering data visualisation products at Thomson Reuters.