Team · The people behind the measure

Meet the team.

We’re a team of evaluators, researchers, and storytellers who believe in measuring what truly matters.

01 — Founder & Lead Researcher

Kenny Lam

Harvard MEdMixed methodsUtilization-focused

Kenny is an evaluator and researcher specializing in mixed-methods education research. With a Master’s in Education from Harvard, he has partnered with organizations including Grammarly, Intel, and Teach For Hong Kong on evaluation projects spanning program effectiveness, strategic planning, and community-based research. His approach draws on utilization-focused and participatory frameworks, ensuring research serves the people who will use it.

More about Kenny

Hi! I’m Kenny. I’ve been drawn to education since childhood — my mother was an educator, and I saw how she shaped lives. The evaluation piece clicked later, when I witnessed how good evaluation can steer entire organizations toward real impact.

My core belief: not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. I’m wary of our “weakness against data” — treating numbers as automatically more trustworthy than stories. Both statistics and narratives have their place in rigorous work.

I tend to scoff at claims that any single innovation will “revolutionize” education (looking at you, AI hype). What consistently matters in learning are the things humans have always needed: efficacy, agency, and belonging.

Outside work, I watch way too much League of Legends (Let’s go T1!), collect Pokémon cards, and believe Korean fried chicken and beer is the ultimate meal. Let’s chat about evaluation, education, or esports over food!

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02 — Programme & Strategy Lead

Irene Li

Strategy & transformationCorporate × social impactEvaluation at scale

Irene is a strategy and transformation specialist who spent over six years inside global corporates before moving full-time into social impact. Her consultancy and research, for clients such as the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and HSBC, investigate practical ways organisations can mobilise people for good, and how rigorous evaluation can grow from single projects into wider sector practice. Her approach is led by a belief in translation, sitting between funders, institutions, NGOs and the communities they serve to help them hear one another.

More about Irene

Hello! I’m Irene. Everything I do connects to a core of translation: finding the language that lets people truly understand what each other cares about.

I’ve been doing this long before it was my job. More precisely, since I was fifteen and sharing classrooms and dorms with students of nearly a hundred nationalities at United World Colleges. The same instinct extends beyond work, into causes I keep returning to: food security, inclusive education, and sustainability.

My years inside global corporates taught me a similar lesson: good intentions don’t fail on ambition. They fail when an idea is mutually agreed but differently understood. Alignment is the easiest thing to assume and the hardest thing to actually have. I bring the rigour I learned in those rooms to social questions now; what keeps me curious is how the care behind individual projects can outlast them.

When I’m not working, I’m still learning to speak other people’s languages, literally, not just figuratively (currently fumbling through Arabic and sign language). The languages closest to my heart, though, are food and words. Let’s connect! I’m always happy to learn yours, over a hearty meal and chat about social impact, seasoned with book or music recommendations.

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03 — Research Manager

Chloe Fung

MEAL practitionerPower & decolonisationNGO & humanitarian

Chloe is a researcher and MEAL practitioner whose work spans the NGO, humanitarian, and academic sectors, in Hong Kong and internationally. As Research Manager at For Good Measure, she helps NGOs to build the evidence, frameworks, and honest internal culture required to create change; shaped by the communities they exist to serve. Her practice is grounded in asking: who holds power, who is being left out, and what it would take to change that.

More about Chloe

Hi, I’m Chloe. I’m drawn to questions of structural accountability, equitable design, and to understanding why things are the way they are.

I have a background in international development and humanitarian emergencies, where I learnt the necessity of approaching research through frameworks of power, decolonisation, and intersectionality. I am an advocate for how MEAL can be more than the reporting at the end of a funding cycle; it is how organisations can clearly communicate their impact, develop a culture of learning, and generate the evidence to hold themselves accountable to the change they set out to create.

That’s what brought me to For Good Measure, where impact is defined by both quantitative analysis and the lived experiences of the people it represents. Having researched the systems that shape the (often lack of) capacity in Hong Kong’s NGO sector, I’m interested in how we can (re)imagine the social infrastructures of the sector to be more equitable. If any of this resonates, let’s connect!

Outside of work, I’m finding other ways to build things or figure out how they work: currently taking apart and rebuilding bikes, figuring out why people love cold water swimming, and most likely learning a new instrument.

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04 — Researcher

Nicholas Wong

HKU Neuroscience × PhilosophyQualitative researchFormer teacher

Nicholas is a researcher specialising in education issues. With a multidisciplinary background in Neuroscience and Philosophy from HKU, he combines qualitative insight with quantitative reasoning to tackle complex problems. As a former secondary school teacher, he understands the practical realities and constraints faced on the ground. At For Good Measure, he develops case studies, designs inquiry processes, and supports organisations in making evidence-informed decisions.

More about Nicholas

Hi there! This is Nicholas. I work at the intersection of research, sense-making, and system design. My grounding in philosophy — especially epistemology and conceptual engineering — shapes how I approach complex, ill-defined issues.

The interest started early. I hated conflict as a child, and I noticed that most arguments stayed alive not because people truly disagreed, but because they relied on different definitions and unspoken assumptions. Clarifying concepts became my way of helping people understand both themselves and one another.

This instinct guides my qualitative research and case study work with schools and education-focused organisations. I often serve as the bridge between narratives and numbers — I see stories and data as partners rather than rivals: each reveals what the other misses, and together they offer a more complete picture of culture and change.

When I’m not buried in books or theories, I’m always up for a pint — preferably with good music (나 원스야!) or after Liverpool score three (YNWA, sorry United fans).

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03Internships · Learning-first

We’re always hiring paid interns.

As a learning-first organization, we pride ourselves on providing authentic learning opportunities — and we customize each internship journey together with our interns, so the work is real and the growth is genuinely yours.

Paid Real research from day one Customized journeys

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04 — Join our team

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Get in touch → We’re always looking for passionate evaluators, researchers, and interns who want to make a difference.