Professor Dr.-Ing Holger KOHL, Head, Department of Sustainable Corporate Development, Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF), Technical University of Berlin; Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK)
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 Dr.-Ing Holger KOHL,
Head, Department of Sustainable Corporate Development, Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF), Technical University of Berlin; Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK)
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
Racing to Zero: Initiatives and Technologies for Decarbonizing Global Value Chains (15 October 2024)
21st Century Frontiers of Medical and Health Humanitarian Assistance: along the Belt and Road (14 April 2023)
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
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