Professor T Wing Lo joined City Polytechnic of Hong Kong as a senior lecturer in 1990, and has been professor at the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences (formerly Department of Applied Social Sciences), City University of Hong Kong since 2005. He obtained his MPhil (social work) from the University of Hull in 1984 and PhD (criminology) from the University of Cambridge in 1991.

Being the winner of CityU’s Applied Research Excellence Award (Certificate of Merit) 2002, Teaching Excellence Award 2007, and CLASS Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award 2019, he has excelled in teaching, research and knowledge transfer.

He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Criminology, editorial board member of Youth Justice, Asian Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Community Justice, China Journal of Social Work, European Review of Organized Crime, and founding editor of the Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioral Sciences.