Patrick Y.K. Chau is a Professor in Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests are in management of information systems, supply chain management and e-commerce. In addition to his teaching and research work, he has directed the undergraduate business programs of the University for four years from 2001 to 2005.

Patrick has been a member of the HKCS since 1999. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Chairperson of the e-Business Specialist Group of the Society. Since May 2006, he has been a member of the Council and Director of Professional Development. He is also involved in the Hong Kong IT Professional Certification Project since its inception.

Patrick obtained his doctorate in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He returned to Hong Kong in 1992 and joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a faculty member in the School of Business and Management. He moved to the University of Hong Kong in 1999. In the academic community, he was President of both the Hong Kong Association for Information Systems and the Chinese Association for Information Systems. He is currently Vice-President of the (worldwide) Association for Information Systems.