CUI, Yunpeng, 2nd yr Economics and Finance student, is part of a team of 7 students that have just won the 2014-2015 President’s Cup Gold Award. The ‘7’ are from both sides of the strait and from different majors, yet, all are at their second year of study and under the same student organization “WILL …

Professor Leonard Kwok-Hon Cheng joined the Department of Economics in July 1992 as Reader in Economics (a British academic title that ceased to exist after HKUST adopted the US academic titles) and left in September 2013 to become President of Lingnan University. From the late 1990s onward, the Department has been recognized as among the …

Benjamin obtained his BBA and MSc in Economics in the HKUST, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Benjamin is now serving as Founding President of the Alumni Association of HKUST in Shanghai.

Isaac Ehrlich joined HKUST in 1992, he has previously served in University of Chicago, the Tel Aviv University, the University of Virginia, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. In 2002 He was awarded an honorary PhD degree from the University of Orleans, France, for his contributions to economics science.

Prof Sonku Kim is now teaching in the Seoul National University, his alma mater.  Prof Kim won the Education Prize award in Seoul National University in 2011. The prize was established to award faculty who developed creative teaching methods or with extraordinary enthusiasm, inspiration to the students and faculty colleagues. He joined HKUST in 1992 and he has fond …