The primary role of the Search Committee is to source the best qualified candidates, conduct preliminary discussions and meetings with them, and submit a search report to the Selection Committee. The membership of the Search Committee is as follows:

• A lay member of the Council, appointed by the Council (Chairman) - Mr. Paul M.Y. Chow
• Three full-time senior professorial Teachers at Chair Professor level*, one from each of the three Faculty groupings (viz. Medicine and Dentistry; Engineering, Science and Architecture; Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Business & Economics, Law, and including The Kadoorie Institute and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences) to be elected from their own cognate Faculty grouping. Each senior professorial Teacher can nominate up to three candidates (one from each of the three cognate Faculty groupings).  (*comprising Chair Professors and Professors with Chair title)
  
  Elected members from the three cognate Faculty groupings are:
  
  Medicine and Dentistry - Professor Kathryn S.E. Cheah
  
  Engineering, Science and Architecture - Professor C.M. Che
  
  Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Business & Economics, Law** - Professor Y.C. Richard Wong (**and including The Kadoorie Institute and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences)
   

2. Korn/Ferry International (H.K.) Ltd. has been appointed by the Search Committee to assist with the recruitment of the next Vice-Chancellor.

3. The Vice-Chancellorship will be advertised internationally, and locally in the SCMP on May 26 and June 2, 2012 (See details here).

4. The Search Committee met for the third time on July 12, 2012 to review the search progress and consider the first report from the search consultants.  Concurrent with the advertisement of the Vice-Chancellor position in both local and international journals/newspapers, the Committee has invited nominations from over 500 individuals who are members of the University community, academic leaders, educators, presidents of leading instiutions and other relevant stakeholders.  It received over 30 nominations which were being carefully considered by the Committee.  In addition, the search consultants received a total of 30 direct applications.

5. The Committee received enquiries from both the student body and alumni on the search progress, and the student body asked in particular the timing on the formation of the Selection Committee.  As many staff and students were away in the months of July and August, the Committee was advised that election of members to the Selection Committee would be conducted as from September 2012 when the new semester starts.