Woo Chia-wei (吳家瑋, pinyin: Wú Jiāwěi), GBS (2000) was the Founding President of the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His dedicated efforts included his work in raising considerable funding and recruiting outstanding Faculty for the University.
Together with Chung Sze Yuen, he created an institution, including a top ranked Business School. The HKUST Business School's MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programs are consistently ra...
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Woo Chia-wei (吳家瑋, pinyin: Wú Jiāwěi), GBS (2000) was the Founding President of the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His dedicated efforts included his work in raising considerable funding and recruiting outstanding Faculty for the University.
Together with Chung Sze Yuen, he created an institution, including a top ranked Business School. The HKUST Business School's MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programs are consistently ranked as top in Asia () and World Top 50 MBA by the Financial Times of London (). He retired in 2001 after 13 years of service and remains President Emeritus as well as University Professor Emeritus.
Born in Shanghai in 1937, he received his secondary education from Pui Ching Middle School in Hong Kong and went to the US in 1955, where he acquired his BS degree in Physics and Mathematics at Georgetown College in Kentucky and his MA and his PhD degrees in Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. Subsequently he taught at Northwestern...
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