Chan Kin-man

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Chan Kin-man
陳健民
Chan Kin-man in 2014
Born	(1959-03-09) March 9, 1959 (age 65) Hong Kong
Nationality	Chinese (Hong Kong) (1997–)
Occupation	Academic
Known for	Co-founder of Occupy Central with Love and Peace
Academic background
Education	Concordia Lutheran School
Alma mater	Chung Chi College, CUHK (BSS) Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Juan José Linz Deborah S. Davis
Academic work
Institutions	Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993–2008) National Chengchi University (2021–)
Main interests	Civil society, Democracy
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Chan Kin-man (Chinese: 陳健民, born 9 March 1959^[1]) is a former associate professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.^[2] He is one of the founders of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace campaign that strove for universal suffrage for the Hong Kong Chief Executive Election in 2017.^[3]

In his undergraduate days, Chan was an avid reader and a passionate student activist. In 1983, he graduated from the Department of Sociology of CUHK, and began participating in community work for several years. By walking with the marginal communities, Chan experienced the multitude of social problems, and vowed to push for reforms on the consciousness and institutional levels.

Since 1993, he has been teaching at the Department of Sociology at CUHK, and will be retiring in 2019. Chan enjoys teaching, and has been honoured as the best lecturer by university and student organizations on multiple occasions.^[4] On the other hand, his research interests and social participation concern the development of civil societies and democracy in Chinese communities.^[4]

Over the years in Mainland China and Hong Kong, he has served various positions in the public services, and set up a number of non-governmental organizations. He is currently the director of the Hong Kong Civil Education Foundation and member of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Democratic Development Network. In March, 2013, Chan, together with Benny Tai and Chu Yiu-ming, initiated the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign “Occupy Central with Love and Peace”, to call for universal suffrage in Hong Kong, which sowed the seeds for the now globally-known Umbrella Movement in 2014.

In 2019, Chan was sentenced to 16 months in prison for his role in the Umbrella Movement.^[5]