HONG KONG,
CHINA – Media OutReach – 28 November 2019 – The
Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has unanimously approved
the appointment of Prof. Lin Zhou as new Dean of CUHK Business
School for five years, targeted to start from December 2019. Prof. Zhou succeeds Prof. Kalok Chan, Wei Lun
Professor of Finance at CUHK, who completed his term on 3 November 2019. The
University is deeply grateful to Prof. Chan for leading the Business School and
his dedicated contribution and service over the past five years.
Prof. Lin Zhou is University Chair Professor of Shanghai
Jiao Tong University. He has rich experience in teaching and administration,
having served the University for a decade. In 2008, he participated in the
establishment of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance and was appointed
the Founding Deputy Director. He became Dean of the Antai College of Economics
and Management in 2010 and led the transformation of Antai into a world-class
business school during his eight years of leadership. Prior to his appointment
at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he held full-time academic appointments at
Yale University, Duke University, Arizona State University for nearly 20 years,
as well as visiting positions at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, and other
institutions in Australia, Belgium, Japan, and Spain.
Prof. Zhou remarked, “I am honoured to be offered the
Deanship of CUHK Business School. The School is highly renowned for its strong
academic research and talent base. I look forward to working closely with the
faculty, staff, students and alumni, to make CUHK Business School one of the
best institutions in the world. We will continue to nurture talent that
embraces innovation, has an entrepreneurial mindset, and values social
responsibility.”
Prof. Zhou graduated from Fudan University in 1982 and
obtained his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1989. His research
covers the basic theory areas of microeconomics, including game theory,
mechanism design, social choice and welfare. As a prominent researcher and
academic, Prof. Zhou has written numerous original papers, and has been
appointed to the editorial boards of top ranking journals. He was awarded the
Dissertation Fellowship and Research Fellowship by the Alfred P Sloan
Foundation and, in 2009, he was elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society,
the first from Greater China, further validating his remarkable research
achievement.
Prof. Zhou has been actively involved in developing talent
through management education. He was on the Board of Directors of the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) and
chaired its Asia-Pacific advisory council; he is currently a member of its
Business Accreditation Task Force. Prof. Zhou also serves on the EQUIS
Accreditation Board of the European Foundation of Management Development. He
sits on the advisory boards of different business schools around the world.
Within mainland China, he is a member of Ministry of Education’s Supervisory
Committees on MBA and Economics Discipline. The Shanghai Municipal government
awarded him the Magnolia Silver Award in 2013 for his contribution to society
as a foreign expert.
In accordance with the guidelines and procedures for the
search and appointment of faculty deans, CUHK formed a search committee to
launch a worldwide search for the next Dean of CUHK Business School. Having
thoroughly considered the nominations/applications received, the Search
Committee finally recommended Prof. Lin Zhou for the position. Pursuant to the
appointment procedures, Prof. Zhou met with faculty, administrative staff and
students of the Business School earlier to exchange views on the future development
of the School and the Council subsequently appointed him as Dean of CUHK
Business School.
About CUHK Business School
CUHK
Business School comprises two schools — Accountancy and Hotel and Tourism Management — and four
departments — Decision Sciences and
Managerial Economics, Finance,
Management and Marketing. Established in Hong Kong in 1963, it is the first
business school to offer BBA, MBA and Executive MBA programmes in the region.
Today, the School offers 8 undergraduate programmes and 20 graduate programmes including MBA, EMBA,
Master, MSc, MPhil and Ph.D.
In the Financial
Times Global MBA Ranking 2019, CUHK MBA is ranked 57th. In FT‘s 2019 EMBA ranking, CUHK EMBA is ranked 24th in the world. CUHK Business School
has the largest number of business alumni (36,000+) among universities/business schools in Hong Kong — many of whom are key business
leaders. The School currently has about
4,400 undergraduate and postgraduate
students and Professor Kalok Chan is the Dean of CUHK Business School.
More information is available at www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk or by
connecting with CUHK Business School on
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cuhkbschool and LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/school/3923680/.
