Shawn Hung

Chi-Hsiang (Shawn) Hung is the founder of Happenus and host of the Happenus Podcast. A certified systems thinking practitioner trained by MIT, Shawn explores the intersection of environmental knowledge systems, climate storytelling, and humanity’s flourishing. He was selected as Taiwan’s representative to the 2024 Jane Goodall Institute Global Leadership Meeting and is a recipient of the Taiwan Global Pathfinder Initiative on Climate Change and Sustainability, supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.

Based in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Shawn brings diverse experience across research, policy, and education. He has served as a Research Fellow in neurotechnology at Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Asia-Pacific Advisor to the Youth Leadership Council of the Jane Goodall Institute India, and academic advisor to National Cheng Kung University’s interdisciplinary talent hubs. His past work includes coordinating Taiwan’s largest semiconductor industry decarbonization expo and contributing to public policy research at the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), Taiwan’s first non-governmental international think tank.

In 2021, Shawn launched a university-based mental health program and led Taiwan’s National Youth Deliberative Democracy Forum, contributing to legislative reforms that expanded online counseling access to over one million youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. His interdisciplinary focus spans ecopsychology, philosophy, and cinema—anchored in a lifelong commitment to deepening our understanding of the human–environment connection.