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 …
Category Archive: Former Faculty
Prof Isaac Ehrlich
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
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 …
Prof Zhiqiang Liu
Prof. Zhiqiang Liu joined HUST in 1992 and left in 1999. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, since 2000. He is also special-term Professor and Deputy Director of the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research at Central University of Finance …
Prof Grant Taylor
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Prof Zhigang Tao
Prof Zhigang TAO stayed in HKUST until 1998. Professor Tao received his B.Sc. in Management Science from Fudan University and his PhD from Princeton University.
Prof Chi-Wa Yuen
Prof Chi-Wa YUEN joined HKUST as one of its founding members in 1991, upon graduation from the University of Chicago. He moved to the University of Hong Kong (his alma mater) 4 years later and has been working there since. Over the years, he has held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, University of Chicago, …
Prof Changqi Wu
Prof Changqi Wu joined the HKUST in 1991. He was one of the founders of the Department of Economics and Finance and taught both undergraduate and MBA courses, many of our alumni know him. In 2000, Changqi was invited to teach an MBA course of managerial economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and …
Prof Lijing Zhu
Prof Lijing Zhu joined HKUST in late September 1991. By the time when he arrived in HK, the campus was just ready to open for classes with Phase-One Construction more or less completed. Left for Singapore in early 1999, Lijing taught at the NUS for more than two years and then visited HKU for one year before returning …