Dr Gordon Munro is Acting Director of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.  A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BEd Music) and the University of Glasgow (PhD in historical musicology), Dr Munro has twenty years’ experience of senior management and leadership in higher education, having previously worked in Glasgow (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Dublin, Ireland.  
His leadership experience covers a broad range, including student recruitment; Junior/pre-HE Conservatoire education; the quality of the student experience in strongly interdisciplinary performing arts environments; and working in partnership with performing arts companies, universities and commercial organisations.  

Gordon played a leading role in RCS’s ‘Curriculum Reform’ project (2008‒12) – a radical undertaking to place the Conservatoire at the forefront of trans-disciplinary higher education in the performing arts.  Gordon has a strong track record in quality assurance in performing arts education:  he chaired the 2018 institutional review of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia) and has participated in numerous other institutional and programme reviews in the UK, Ireland and Estonia.  

From 2015–2021, Gordon was a board member of MusiQuE, the European quality assurance agency for music in higher education, and was latterly Chair of the Board.  He helped to steer the successful re-accreditation of MusiQuE on the European Quality Assurance Register, and he has led training sessions for peer reviewers.  Gordon has also served as a board member of EQ-Arts, the European quality assurance agency for creative and performing arts and design.  Gordon has also served as a member of the General Teaching Council for Scotland, and has participated in several reviews of programmes associated with teacher education.  He has also served as External Examiner at various UK conservatoires and universities.  

Gordon’s research interests centre on music performance and education during the Renaissance in Scotland, and he has published numerous articles and editions in this field.  Gordon was General Editor and Board member of Musica Scotica, a publishing house promoting research and performance of Scottish music.  

When not engaged in academic leadership, Gordon is a keen runner and amateur gardener.