Dr Wilson Wong

Background

An economic psychologist, data scientist and futurist, Wilson has over 30 years of experience of applied research into organisations – their leadership, values/ culture, futures strategy, and the evaluation, management, and development of human capital for policy & practice, investors and in academia. His research consulting and futures clients include the Metropolitan Police, Logica, Standard Chartered Bank, Nottingham County Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, DWP. MoD, Human Capital Development Corporation, HCLI, and RBS. He is Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School, Adjunct Professor at HK Baptist University, National Chair of the HRM & Human Capital Standards Committee at BSI, and sits on several academic research strategy boards, including the board of the journal, IJHRDPPR.

He chairs the strategic business planning committee of ISO/TC 260 HRM Standards and was for over a decade the Head of Insight & Futures, and Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, UK) developing the base for evidence-based practice. He helmed the research at the European Association of People Management (EAPM) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). In 2020, he was recognised with the President’s Medal by the British Academy of Management for his contribution to evidence-based management practice, and the Standards Maker Award by BSI for his work on a BSI safe working guide for organizations during a pandemic. A UK human capital metrics expert to ISO, he co-edited Human capital management standards: A complete guide, published by Kogan Page. He has led on and continues to develop measures of sustainable HC. He is a member of the UN Millennium Project global futures experts’ network and has led the futures research on national talent ecosystems for policy development in Singapore and Malaysia. A human capital strategist taking the long view, he continues to advise organisations on their people and is a regular speaker/ lecturer in human capital management and development.