Before joining OUHK, he was the principal of a secondary school in Hong Kong and a School Development Officer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Now he is the leader of the programmes of Postgraduate Diploma in Education in OUHK. Dr. Chan has been a member of the Expert Group of the T-standard+ Consortium of COTAP of the Hong Kong Education Bureau, school manager, member of principal selection boards and a member of the Board of Education of a school sponsoring body in Hong Kong. He also served as the Quality Monitor of PISA (Hong Kong) in 2009 and 2015. His research interests include educational leadership, economics of education, educational policies and early childhood education.