Ian Holliday (; born 1960) is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly Myanmar. He is currently the vice-president of

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(HKU). He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in social and political science at

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, in 1982, before completing his doctor of philosophy (DPhil) degree in politics at

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, in 1989. He taught at

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(1990–99),

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, and

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(from 1999) before teaching at

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(from 2006), he once served as Deputy Dean of Academy of Social Sciences of Hong Kong University. In 2014, he was appointed vice-president of the University of Hong Kong.

Myanmar

Art

Holliday has been an advocate for assisting Burmese artists who have been repressed by the military government in Myanmar, in 2014 co-curating an art show for banned artists, as well as writing the book ''Painting Myanmar's Transition'' in 2021.

Books

Holliday is co-editor of the book ''Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar'' and of ''Painting Myanmar's Transition''. He is author of ''Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar'', and coauthor of ''Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar''. He is widely cited as an expert on Myanmar (Burma).

References

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