Ivy Lai Chun Chun is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong (HKU).  She received Bachelor of Arts, Major in Comparative Literature, and Minors in Linguistics and Philosophy, HKU; Master of Arts in English (Literary Studies) and Master of Arts in InterCultural Studies in CUHK.

She is interested in the study of languages and culture.  She had participated in HKU WorldWide Exchange in Auckland University, New Zealand, and HKU Summer Exchange in Peking University, China. She had hosted a University Campus Radio Program, sharing her cross-cultural experiences with university students.

She is dedicated to research and cultural activities in the community.  She had published some works in linguistics and literature; and, she had been interviewed by a reporter in the Pearl Report for her outstanding volunteer work in the local Arts and Cultural Scheme.  She had been a writer of HKU Newsletter ‘Dialogue’.

She is now an independent scholar as well as a university administrator in HKU.  In her free time, she reads and writes, dances and sings, and explores herself more through academic works.
 
For service to school in community at large, she is now one of the Organizing Committee (OC) Members of the Mentorship scheme of the joint-schools: her alma mater Marymount Secondary School (MSS) and Hong Kong Wah Yan College (WYHK).   In November 2018, she organized a Knowledge Exchange (KE) Engagement Activity [a new KE initiative]: WYHK visiting HKU Faculty of Law, for those brilliant Secondary 6 WYHK students who are very interested in doing HKU law degree programmes in the next academic year.  Besides, she has been invited by school supervisor of her alma mater Dr E. K. P. Hui to be enrolled as a Marymount Professional under the Education (or legal) Chapter of Marymount Professional Networks.