Dr. Shirley Yeung

Professional Profile

Professor Yeung is a professional advocate of SDG and ESG. In 2023, the Project “Restore the Nature with Innovations via SDGs and ESG/ Positive Peace’ Convened by Dr. Shirley Yeung carried out in 2022/ 2023 and coming years for SDG Acceleration. One of the signature projects is a recent joint exhibition with SYART Founder – Mr. Song Yang in the Fringe Club, Chan Lai-Ling Gallery, Hong Kong, July 24th to Aug. 3, 2023. In September, 2023, Dr. Yeung also served as a curator for Russian female artists for an exhibition in the Fringe Club, visualizating SDG#5 gender empowerment and #9 innovations.

Dr. Shirley Yeung’s Chinese Calligraphy drawings/ expressive drawings and Bad Girl paintings of renowned art entrepreneur, Mr. Song Yang with 16 years of history of SYART Gallery have demonstrated the integration of SDG#5 Gender Equality, SDG#9 innovations, and SDG #17 partnership to support young female artists to have more exposure in technology, for example, NFT and web 3.0 as services supported by HopeNFT, iSHANG. (http://www.hkfringeclub.com/zh/whatson/1925-Restore+the+Nature+with+Innovations+via+SDGs+and+ESG%2B+PositivePeace.html)

In 2023, Dr. Yeung was invited by SYART Gallery as a Judging Panel Member for YAA Award 2023. Dr. Yeung was also nominated as Local Change Maker by The International Center for Environmental Development and Community Education (ICENECDEV), UN Global Compact Member. In the same year, Dr. Yeung awarded International #Time2Leap Award Winner, SDG Acceleration Visionary Leader from MSME Summentorpro, recognized by the Ministry of India. Starting from July 2023, Dr. Yeung is a residence artist, Boomer Gallery, London, UK, and her paintings have been selected to display in the Boomer Gallery, London, July 7 and August 11, 2023. In March 2023, Dr. Yeung was shortlisted to display spatial.io teaching / painting exhibition templates and Chinese calligraphy paintings on the Project of “Restore the Nature with Innovations via SDGs/ ESG” in the United Nations UNESCAP 75 SDG Acceleration Pavilion, Bangkok. In 2022, Dr. Yeung was a winner for the 8th Young Asia Artist (YAA) SYART Gallery, Singapore, Top 40/150.

Besides, Dr. Yeung has organised different events, e.g. cross generation transformation movie project with HKFAA supported by UNESCO HK and SDSN – Kenya with Caritas St Jospeh Secondary School, 2020 - March, 2021 and supported JCI activities on sustainable development. For example:

  • Sept., 2021 – The 5th Movie on “Cross Generation Transformative Movie Project” supported by 7 countries:http://www.gcc.edu.
  • Sept, 2023 - Working on the 8th Movie on Cross Generation Transformative Movie Project