Kai-man Kwan (Chinese: 關啟文) is a Chinese Christian philosopher at Hong Kong Baptist University.[1] He is the current Director of the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies.[2]
After graduating as an electrical engineer from the University of Hong Kong in 1983, Kwan worked as a Science and Maths teacher first at Matteo Ricci College, and then at Carmel Alison Lam Foundation Secondary School. He completed his M.Phil. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1993 from Oxford University under the supervision of Richard Swinburne.[3] The next year he joined Hong Kong Baptist University as a part-time Lecturer. He served as the Head of the Department of Religion and Philosophy from 2013 to 2018.[4] He was one of the founding members of the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies under the faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2001, where he served as Research Project Coordinator from 2001-2004 and as Associate Director from 2004–2006.[5] He is its current Director.
Kwan served on the "Academic Council" of the now-defunct, California-based International Children's Rights Institute,[6] an organization founded by Robert Oscar Lopez that unsuccessfully lobbied against gay marriage in the United States, Australia, and Taiwan.
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