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Professor
Yue-Chim Richard Wong
SBS JP
王于漸
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
In office
1 April 2019 – 28 May 2024
PresidentXiang Zhang
Preceded byPaul Tam
Succeeded byVivian Yam
In office
12 June 2004 – 26 January 2010
PresidentLap-chee Tsui
Preceded byCheung Yau Kai (acting, 2000)
Succeeded byRoland Chin
Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, the University of Hong Kong
In office
2001–2007
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGary C. Biddle
Director of the School of Business, the University of Hong Kong
In office
1997–2001
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byEric C. Chang
Vice President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Institutional Advancement) of the University of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 May 2024
Preceded byNorman Tien Chihnan (July 2021)
Personal details
Born (1952-06-20) June 20, 1952 (age 72)[1]
Shanghai, China
Political partyPath of Democracy
SpouseJane Chan [1]
Children2
EducationUniversity of Chicago (AB, AM, PhD)
Alma materTak Sun School[2]
Wah Yan College, Kowloon
OccupationEconomist, educator, academic administrator
Dontbuyapple/Yue-Chim Richard Wong
Chinese王于漸
Transcriptions
In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Wong. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Richard Wong and the Chinese-style name is Wong Yue-chim.

Richard Wong Yue-Chim SBS JP (Chinese: 王于漸; born 20 June 1952) is a Hong Kong economist, educator, and academic administrator currently serving as Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Wong served as the founding Dean of HKU's Faculty of Business and Economics from 2001 to 2007, and is Chair of Economics and Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy.[3]

Prior to taking up the provostship for a second time in 2019, Wong was Head of the Hong Kong Academy of Politics and Public Policy, served on Path of Democracy's Board of Governors[4], was a member of a number of statutory bodies[5], and served as an advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation, a pro-Beijing Hong Kong think tank[6].

Early life and education

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Richard Wong Yue-Chim was born in Shanghai, China, and grew up in Hong Kong, where he attended Tak Sun School and Wah Yan College, Kowloon. After graduating, Wong attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained his AB and AM degrees in economics.

Academic career

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Wong returned to Hong Kong in 1976 to teach at the Department of Economics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, initially as an Assistant Lecturer. He was subsequently promoted to Lecturer in 1981 after obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago. During his time at CUHK, Wong began taking up administrative responsibilities, serving as a member of the University Senate from 1981 to 1992, and as Dean of Students of New Asia College from 1981 to 1983. Wong actively participated in the founding of Shaw College, serving as a founding fellow and trustee of the College in the 1980s and 90s. Following his promotion to Senior Lecturer in 1987, Wong became a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, and founded the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research, where he remains Director.

In 1992, Wong joined the School of Economics and Finance (now part of the Faculty of Business and Economics) of the University of Hong Kong as a reader, subsequently becoming a full professor in 1995.

In 1997, he was appointed Director of the newly founded School of Business, a merger of the former Department of Management Studies and the old Business School. When the School of Business was amalgamated with the School of Economics and Finance in 2001 to form the Faculty of Business and Economics, Wong went on to serve as its founding Dean, first in an acting capacity from 2001 until 2002, when he was formally appointed Dean. During his tenure, the School of Business introduced a series of new double-degree undergraduate programmes, including the Bachelor of Business Administration (Law) and Bachelor of Laws programme and the Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science/Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Systems) programme,

Wong continued to serve as acting Dean when he was appointed Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2004.

Wong took up the provostship for a second time in 2019, when he was appointed on an interim basis to succeed interim Provost Paul Tam, who had unexpectedly resigned.

He is among 38 economists who issued a statement backing the controversial Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation project proposed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in her policy address in October. He is also a critic of the 2014 Occupy protests. Wong is an independent non-executive director at various property and development companies.

王于漸早年在上海出生，就讀德信學校及九龍華仁書院，後赴美國芝加哥大學留學，相繼取得經濟學學士（1974年）、碩士（1974年）學位。[7]

1976年，王于漸回港於香港中文大學經濟系出任助理講師。1981年獲芝加哥大學頒發哲學博士學位後，晉升為講師，同時出任新亞書院學生事務長（1981年－1983年）。其後參與逸夫書院的創立與草創時期的工作。在1987年成為高級講師。在中大期間，他曾在芝加哥大學全国民意研究中心、史丹佛大學胡佛战争、革命与和平研究所任訪問學人。1988年，王于漸創立香港經濟研究中心，並擔任中心主任至今。

1992年，王于漸加入香港大學經濟及工商管理學院，擔任副教授，三年後晉升為教授。；其後曾擔任商學院院長（1997－2002年）、經濟及工商管理學院院長（2001－2007年，其中2001－2002年及2004－2007年為署理院長）、首席副校長（2004－2010年）等管理職務。在其擔任商學院院長期間，該院增設了「工商管理學學士（法學）及法學士」、「工商管理學士（資訊系統）及工學士」等雙學位課程。1997及1999年，他分別創立了香港大學亞太經濟合作研究中心及香港經濟及商業策略研究所，並任後者的主任至今。自2001年起，他亦擔任校務委員會委員。

2011年，王于漸成為黃乾亨黃英豪基金教授。

2019年4月起，再度出任香港大學暫任首席副校長，以接替突然請辭、自2015年起暫任首副的譚廣亨。[8][9][10]

Public service and political activities

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王于漸曾參與不少公共服務，包括參與外匯基金諮詢委員會、香港房屋委員會、工業及科技發展局、大學教育資助委員會、中央政策組、行政長官特設創新科技委員會、策略發展委員會等。

1999年，王于漸獲香港特別行政區政府頒贈銀紫荊星章，以表揚其對香港教育、房屋、工業及科技發展所作出的貢獻，並於翌年獲委任為太平紳士。[11]

Wong supported Tung Chee-hwa's re-election in 2002, and is known as a moderate pro-establishment figure. Between 201x and 201x, Wong served as an advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation, a pro-Beijing think tank set up by Tung Chee-Hwa. At the height of the Occupy Central protests in 2014, Wong penned an op-ed in the Hong Kong Economic Journal

In 2018, Wong was one of 38 economists who issued a statement supporting the Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation project that Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed in her October 2018 policy address.

Wong is known for his involvement with the centrist political group Path of Democracy,

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2183701/hong-kong-university-set-launch-third-global-search-fill-no

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/4/204677/Economist-appointed-HKU-interim-provost

https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/289256

Personal life

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Wong is married to Jane Chan, whom he met while studying at the University of Chicago. The couple have a son and a daughter, Michael and Christina.

Research interests

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  • 人力資源經濟學
  • 房屋及人口經濟學
  • Economic policy and economic reform

Honours and awards

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Selected publications

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  • Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, February 2017, 316 pages.
  • 《面對不均再創奇蹟》
  • “「一帶一路」建設中的香港新興產業平台” ，載於 『一帶一路與香港』，林建忠主編，三聯書店（香港）有限公司 。
  • “如何用經濟學方法在香港實踐扶貧和解決老人貧困”，載於《經濟說、信仰話》， 林潔珍、廖柏偉、宋恩榮主編，宣道出版社。
  • “如何用經濟學方法扶貧和解決老人貧困”，載於《經濟、金融與基督教視角》， 林潔珍、黃元山主編，上海社會科學院出版社。
  • Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People
  • 《芝大經濟學派與市場社會秩序》
  • “重拾政改動力，如期普選特首”，載於《香港，2014 － 名人眼中的香港政局》, 薛龍樹選編, 中華出版社。
  • “香港民主政制的三大主流論說”，載於 《香港，2014 － 名人眼中的香港政局》， 薛龍樹選編, 中華出版社。

參考資料

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  1. ^ a b 盧子健、何安達 (1994). 香港人名錄. 天地圖書. p. 21.
  2. ^ "德信學校2018至2019年度學校概覽" (PDF). 德信學校. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-07-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "President's Office". presidentoffice.hku.hk. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  4. ^ "王于漸辭智庫理事任港大首席副校　民主思路：百感交雜、難以取代". 香港01. 2019-01-30.
  5. ^ "短傳". Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  6. ^ "Economist appointed HKU interim provost - The Standard". www.thestandard.com.hk. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  7. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE　Yue Chim Richard WONG SBS JP". Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  8. ^ "港大譚廣亨突辭首副 王于漸接任". 星島日報. 2019-01-25.[dead link]
  9. ^ "港大首席副校譚廣亨突辭職　 王于漸接任". 蘋果日報. 2019-01-25. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  10. ^ "譚廣亨請辭 王于漸獲委港大首席副校". 明報. 2019-01-25. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  11. ^ "一九九九年授勳名單". Archived from the original on 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2018-01-24.

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