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 …
Category Archive: Issue 02
Prof Leonard Kwok-Hon Cheng
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 Hak Fung Chiao
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.
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 …
Kong Wah Lai
Kong Wah graduated from the Bachelor of Science in Economics program in HKUST and spent a few years in the private sector in Hong Kong before pursuing his PhD in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rachel Li Wah Ngai
Rachel graduated from BSc in Economics in HKUST and went to University of Pennsylvania to peruse her PhD degree. She started working in the London School of Economics since 2001 and is now Reader of the Department of Economics.
Kam Wing Siu
Wing finished his BSc and MSc in Economics in HKUST and he got PhD from Boston University. Then he joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in both Atlanta and Beijing, and later PricewaterhouseCoopers in Beijing. In 2012, he came back to start a career in education, he always says, “I was blessed to have received valuable …
Prof Grant Taylor
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