Orlando Leng

Orlando Leng is a researcher, civic leader, and institutional strategist whose work sits at the intersection of public safety, digital governance, and international youth development.

As Secretary-General of APYCF, Leng serves as the institutional backbone of the Foundation's global operations, overseeing governance architecture, membership systems, strategic partnerships, and the day-to-day coordination that allows APYCF to function with coherence and credibility on the international stage.

Prior to this role, he served as Chief Financial Officer of OVAL China, managing and coordinating financial and operational systems across multiple countries and regions, and served as sole general coordinator of the 2025 China-Japan-Korea Exchange Summit in Shanghai.

His academic and civic work has been supported by multiple competitive funding channels, including a CSC-backed Chinese Government Scholarship, additional institutional research support, and youth-development funding connected to cross-border exchange, public safety, and digital governance projects.

Leng's long-term research agenda focuses on the public safety risks created by false and predatory content circulating through social media platforms, especially in domains such as diet, fitness, and nutrition supplement communication.

His published work in Frontiers in Public Health and Frontiers in Psychology examines the pathways through which health misinformation gains credibility, shapes behaviour, and produces harm, with particular attention to young people and communities with fewer institutional resources.

Across his research and institutional work, Leng asks a single urgent question: how do we build information environments in which the most vulnerable are protected, not targeted?