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The University Grants Committee (UGC) announced the result of 2020 UGC Teaching Award today (September 28). Mr. David S. Lee, Principal Lecturer of HKU Business School, has been awarded the UGC Teaching Award for the Early Career Faculty Members category.

The annual UGC Teaching Award is a top teaching houour to those who excel in teaching among public universities in Hong Kong. Mr. Lee is the first faculty member from a business discipline in Hong Kong to have received this award. The awardee of the “Early Career Faculty Members” category is required to demonstrate, in less than six years of teaching experience, superior classroom acumen, up-to-date knowledge of the field of study and excellent scholarly achievements and leadership in teaching across universities.

Mr. Lee mentioned: “I am honoured and humbled to have received this teaching award and would like to extend my deep appreciation to the UGC, for all of their support in the development of universities in Hong Kong. I also want to express thanks to my colleagues for their continued support, including our Dean Professor Hongbin Cai, Professors Guochang Zhang and Larry Qiu, Dr. Olivia Leung, Mr. David Bishop, and Mr. Beau Lefler. Prior to joining HKU Business School, I have worked across consulting, law, entrepreneurial ventures and in finance, but none of those roles were as meaningful as teaching is. The opportunity to engage and work with wonderful young people and help on their respective learning and life journeys is an honour and privilege for me.”

Professor Hongbin Cai, Dean of HKU Business School, remarked: “David is very talented in teaching and well-deserve the honour. His courses are innovative, creative and wide-ranging, and are welcomed by students. HKU Business School is always proud to have young and intelligent teachers, like David, with us and has always been committed to enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. We are dedicated to recruiting more outstanding scholars, investing resources to improve facilities, promoting local education while nurturing elite business talents.”

This is the seventh teaching excellence and innovation award received by Mr. Lee during his five years at HKU. He teaches mainly in the areas of ethics, fintech, law, and corporate governance for undergraduate and master programmes in HKU. Mr. Lee demonstrates a high flexibility in teaching at the University. In order to teach effectively during these extraordinary times, Lee applied technology to practical teaching. He co-designed and co-taught a massive online open course, Fintech Ethics and Risks. The course was the first of its kind in the world, and has been recognised with its innovative curriculum design, high rate of student interaction, and unique technical elements. Over eleven thousand students globally have enrolled in the course to date, which is a positive affirmation of Mr. Lee’s achievement in teaching.

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HKU Business School strives to nurture first-class business leaders and foster academic and relevant research to serve the needs of Hong Kong, China and the rest of the world in the new Asia-led economy. As Asia’s premier international business school, we engage leading scholars from all corners of the globe and they instil in the students global knowledge with an Asian perspective. HKU Business School attracts top students from Hong Kong and beyond. It admits the highest proportion of non-local undergraduate students amongst all Faculties at HKU. Three of its undergraduate programmes are ranked among the University’s top 10 programmes.

Our full-time MBA programme has a strong Asia and China focus, and the programme has been ranked Asia’s no. 1 in the World MBA Rankings released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for nine consecutive years from 2010 to 2018. Students can opt for an overseas exchange opportunity to supplement their campus learning in Hong Kong: a London track at London Business School, a New York track at Columbia Business School or a Hong Kong/China track at Fudan University.

HKU Business School also offers an elite EMBA-Global Asia programme, jointly with CBS and LBS, for globally-focused senior executives and professionals. Its International MBA Programme, delivered in Shanghai in collaboration with Fudan University, was the first of its kind when it was launched in 1998. The School collaborated with Guanghua School of Management of the Peking University and offered a DBA programme and the HKU-PKU EMBA Programme in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

HKU Business School is fully accredited by the European Quality Improvement Systems (EQUIS) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

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