Wilson Wong

Senior Researcher


The Work Foundation

Wilson Wong is a Senior Researcher on the Future of HR Programme, designing and executing the research programme. He joined The Work Foundation in December 2008.

He has a wide variety of employment experience, including working as Research Fellow at the Primary Care Unit, Peninsula Medical School and as Lead Researcher on the Broadband4Devon programme. From 1999-2002, Wilson was an IT Policy Technologist for the National IT Council Secretariat in Malaysia, where he headed Globalisation and E-Commerce Policy Research. He was Trustee of Exeter Community Initiatives and Chair of the Devon BME Strategic Group, 2005-2008.

Wilson was awarded a PhD in Psychology from the University of Exeter. His thesis researched the effects of time and timing on the perception of offers as windows of opportunities. Prior to that, he earned an MA and MBA (Finance) from the University of Nottingham and read law at King’s College London. He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1990.