Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN, Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine; Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Chief Executive Officer, GX Foundation
Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
The Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture is a major academic programme of the College, which has been in operation since 1990. The intention of the programme is to invite every year internationally distinguished scholar to visit the College to deliver a public lecture together with other programmes as appropriate, and meeting with students.
Professor David SC HUI,
Chairman, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN,
Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine; Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Chief Executive Officer, GX Foundation
Past Lectures
21st Century Frontiers of Medical and Health Humanitarian Assistance: along the Belt and Road (14 April 2023)
What have we learnt from COVID-19? (11 March 2021)
Professor David SC HUI, Chairman, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
How Japan and China learned from each other from 600 A.D. to the present (21 January 2020)
Professor Ezra VOGEL, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
The era of artificial intelligence (20 March 2019)
Dr. LEE Kai-fu, Chair and CEO, Sinovation Ventures
Innovations that transform society beyond robotics, genetics and artificial intelligence (18 January 2018)
Professor Gunter PAULI, Entrepreneur, Author of The Blue Economy and The Blue Economy 2.0
Why we need an open-source virtual assistant and how we’re building it (22 March 2017)
Professor Monica LAM, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
Globalization and localization: implications for social development (9 March 2016)
Professor James MIDGLEY, Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley)
Education without limits (27 December 2014)
Professor Andrew NG, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Chief Scientist, Baidu; Chair and Co-Founder, Coursera
Change the brain by transforming the mind (6 March 2013)
Professor Richard J. DAVIDSON, Founder and Chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A college student of the 21st century: educated and civilized It (8 February 2012)
Professor David C.L. LIU, William Mong Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan