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Vice-Chancellor Selection Committee meets to kick-start the selection process
Dear colleagues, students, alumni and friends,
I am pleased to inform you that the Selection Committee for the 15th Vice-Chancellor of the University, comprising 11 members and representatives from all major sectors of the HKU community, held its first meeting today to kick-start the selection process and to discuss matters of procedure and protocol relating to the selection exercise.
In the meeting, members of the Selection Committee received a search report from the Search Committee, which had been tasked by the University Council to identify and secure outstanding candidates for the next Vice-Chancellor, based on the five selection criteria that were identified and endorsed by the University Council. They include: excellent academic standing and leadership, integrity, vision, demonstrated management capability and effective interpersonal and communication skills.
The Selection Committee will proceed to review the suitability of the candidates presented by the Search Committee, in accordance with the search and selection mechanism as approved by the University Council.
As the Chairman of the Selection Committee, I will be working with the following members in the selection process:
• Two lay Council members, represented by Mr Paul M Y Chow (lay Council member on the Search Committee) and Mr Lester G Huang (elected by the Council)
• One Faculty Dean (elected by the Faculty Deans among themselves), represented by Professor L P Samaranayake
• Three full-time professorial Teachers (elected from their own cognate Faculty grouping), represented by Professor Lo Chung Mau (Medicine and Dentistry), Professor Yang Dan (Engineering, Science and Architecture) and Professor Gary Biddle (Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Business & Economics, Law (and including The Kadoorie Institute and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences)
• One full-time non-professorial Teacher or academic-related staff member (elected from among their own number), represented by Dr W L Wong
• One alumnus/alumna (elected by Convocation), represented by Mr Man Cheuk Fei
• One full-time non-academic staff member (elected from among their own number), represented by Dr Victor K M Chan
• One full-time student (elected by undergraduate and postgraduate students), represented by Mr Laurence Y L Tang.
The Selection Committee provides broad representation of the HKU community, and I look forward to working with the members to identify the best candidate to lead the University and further build its academic excellence, research accomplishments and global standing.
Dr C H Leong
Chairman of the Selection Committee for the 15th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
