Virginia Harper Ho is a Professor of Law at CityU School of Law. Her primary research interests are corporate law and governance, securities regulation, sustainability, and corporate finance from a comparative perspective. Her work has been published by leading law journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the American Business Law Journal. She has written recently on ESG disclosure, shareholder activism, comparative corporate governance, and China's green finance reforms, and has contributed to ESG reform initiatives of the of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Prior to joining CityU, she was the Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law Programs and Director of the Polsinelli Transactional Law Center at the University of Kansas School of Law (USA). She has received numerous research and teaching awards, including the Hoeber Award for Excellence in Research from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB). She serves on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), and is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She is also an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law and a Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program.

She has previously served as a Research Fellow of the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing and as a visiting scholar at Zhejiang University and Sun Yat-Sen University. Prior to entering academia, Harper Ho practiced corporate and securities law and advised U.S. and foreign multinationals on cross-border transactions with a focus on Asia.