In September last year, EdUHK held its Honorary Awards Ceremony at its Tai Po campus. Presided over by EdUHK Council Chairman Dr David Wong Yau-kar, the event honoured six distinguished individuals by conferring five honorary doctorates and one honorary fellowship.
Professor James J. Gross
Doctor of Education, honoris causa
Professor Gross is a leading expert in psychology, specialising in emotion and emotion regulation. He is the Ernest R. Hilgard Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where he directs both the Stanford Center for Affective Science and the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory.
His research focuses on emotion coherence and emotion regulation strategies across healthy and clinical populations. Professor Gross’s influential process model has led to research in fields including affective science, clinical science and business. His academic journey began as a predoctoral fellow in the United States government’s National Institute of Mental Health training programme. He earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 1994.
Professor Gross has 650 publications and over 250,000 citations. He is co-founding President for the Society for Affective Science, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Lawrence J. Lau, GBS, JP
Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa
Professor Lau is a distinguished economist and Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics at the Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance. His expertise lies in economic development, economic growth and the economies of East Asia, including China, for which he developed one of the first econometric models in 1966.
In 1976, Professor Lau joined Stanford University as Professor of Economics and was appointed the first Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development in 1992. From 2004 to 2010, he served as Vice-Chancellor (President) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Professor Lau has authored, co-authored or edited 19 books, and published over 220 scholarly articles and notes, and has garnered considerable acclaim for his contributions. He was a member of the 11th and 12th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, serving as Vice-Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Population, Resources and Environment from 2010 to 2013, and Vice Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Economics from 2013 to 2018.
Professor Justin Yifu Lin
Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa
Professor Lin currently serves as a Standing Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and Vice Chairman of its Committee on Economic Affairs, as well as Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University.
Born in Taiwan, China, driven by his passion for the country, Professor Lin went to Peking University to study economics. He then completed his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, USA, before returning to China to serve as Deputy Director of the Development Research Institute at the State Council's Rural Development Research Centre.
In 1994, Professor Lin founded the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University and participated in the formulation of China’s economic reform policies. In 2008, he was appointed Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. He has published over 300 papers in domestic and international academic journals and received numerous academic honours. In recent years, he has been involved in planning the development of the Greater Bay Area.
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