Dr Benny Lim
Professional Consultant and Director of the Master of Arts in Cultural Management Programme
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Benny Lim (Ph.D.) is Professional Consultant (Associate Professor of Practice) and Director of the Master of Arts in Cultural Management programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also Visiting Professor with the Design School of Taylor’s University (Malaysia) and Adjunct Professor of Communication and Media Studies with UniPegaso (Italy).
Prior to his current appointments, Benny was in the senior leadership team of both Berjaya University College and KDU University College in Malaysia. He was a Visiting Scholar of Peking University’s Institute of Cultural Industries (2019-2020), Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Nottingham’s (Malaysia) Asia Research Institute (2019), and Visiting Assistant Professor of Macau’s Institute of Tourism Studies (2015-2016).
Benny has produced and conceptualised over 70 different theatre productions and arts festivals addressing various socio-political issues in the last two decades. He was also a Board Member of Hong Kong Justice Centre between 2014 and 2016. Currently, Benny is the Board Chair of Along the Edge Limited, a non-profit arts organisation in Hong Kong, as well as a member of the Programme Sub-committee of The Teng Company (Singapore).
