He is a member of the Governance Committee of the Hong Kong Growth Portfolio and the Development Bureau Common Spatial Data Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, a member of the Court of the City University of Hong Kong and the Belt and Road and Greater Bay Area Committee of the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council, Chairman of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Sustainable Business Network, Vice Chairman of Pacific Basin Economic Council. 

Dr. Lam holds a PhD from the University of Hong Kong and advanced degrees in subjects including Mathematics, Science, Law and Accounting from the University of Ottawa and Charlton University in Canada, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Wolver Hampton in the UK, the City University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

A former member of the Hong Kong Bar, Dr. Lam is a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong and in 2019 was awarded by the HKSAR Government a Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) for serving the public.