Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong student political activist and the co-founder and current secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō. Before this, he had served as the convenor and founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism. Raised as a Protestant Christian in the Lutheran tradition, Wong was deeply influenced by his father’s social and economic beliefs. He attended the United Christian College (Kowloon East) where he was part of several church groups. This helped him accumulate organisational and speaking skills. He first garnered international media attention during the 2014 Hong Kong protests and was a prominent figure in the Umbrella Movement. He was subsequently listed in TIME magazine's Most Influential Teens of 2014 and was nominated for its 2014 Person of the Year accolade. Furthermore, he was hailed as one of the "world's greatest leaders" by Fortune magazine in 2015 and received a nomination for the Noble Peace Prize in 2018. Since the beginning of the Hong Kong protests, Wong has been convicted and jailed multiple times along with his fellow activists. In August 2019, he was detained once more before a planned demonstration.
