Patrick Poon is previously a Visiting Researcher of the University of Tokyo and previously a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Law of Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In his years in Hong Kong, Patrick was a court reporter at the South China Morning Post, an English website editor of China Labour Bulletin, executive secretary and board member of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, executive secretary and board member of Independent Chinese PEN Center, and a China researcher of Amnesty International. He is currently a board member and consultant of Tokyo-based Asian Lawyers Network and a member of Lady Liberty Hong Kong. His opinion articles on Hong Kong and China were published in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Free Press, Nikkei Asia and Japan News.