Dr Robert Chung is the Director of Public Opinion Programme (POP) at The University of Hong Kong, which is one of the most respected academic programmes on the study of public opinion in Hong Kong and in the Greater China Region.

From 1993 to 1994, Dr Chung served as a part-time community panelist of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government, then as a part-time member between 1994 and 1999. Between 1998 and 2003, he also served as a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Community Relations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Dr Chung was a member of the Specialized Committee on Social Development of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service from 2009 to 2012 and then from 2014 to 2017.

Dr Chung has been the Hong Kong representative at the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for almost 20 years. Between 2006 and 2007, he was the elected Secretary-Treasurer of WAPOR and he was elected to the Chair of the Liaison Committee of WAPOR from 2010 to 2015. In November 2017, he was elected the Founding President of the WAPOR Asia, a regional chapter of WAPOR.