Student

Hong Kong

Joshua Wong

As the founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism, Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a student at the Open University of Hong Kong, is best known for leading fellow students in the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, an Occupy strategy against the brainwashing of national education. In recognition of his activism, he was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential Teens of 2014 and nominated for TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.

Representing the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism.