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During their stay in Moscow, the HKUST delegates also had
meetings with Ms
Tatiana Leonova
, Vice-Rector of the Far-
East Federal University, Mr.
Alexandr Povalko
, Deputy
Minister of Education of Russia, and leaders of the Skolkovo
Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to discuss the
possibilities for broader engagement between HKUST and
Russian universities.
Prof.
Albert Park
, Director of
HKUST IEMS, joined Prof.
Wei
Shyy
, Executive Vice-President
and Provost of HKUST, and Prof.
Yan Xu
, Associate Dean of HKUST
Business School, in a visit to the
Moscow School of Management
SKOLKOVO on June 2-4, 2014.
Initiated by Mr.
Karl Johansson
,
former EY Managing Partner for CIS
and Chairman of the Advisory Board
of HKUST IEMS, the visit explored
the potential for cooperation in the
areas of both research on emerging
markets and business training.
T h e H K U S T d e l e g a t i o n h e l d
d i s c u s s i o n s w i t h M r.
Ru b e n
Vardanian
, Founding Partner and
Vice-Chairman of the International
Advisory Board of Moscow School
o f M a n a g e m e n t S K O L K OVO ,
Mr.
Alexey Kalinin
, Director of SKOLKOVO Institute for
Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), directors of SKOLKOVO’s
MBA training programs, and other SKOLKOVO faculty
and research staff. Also joining the meeting was Ms
Irina
Lapidus
, Development Director of the New Economic School
in Moscow. These discussions led to agreements for HKUST
IEMS to explore the potential for research collaboration with
SKOLKOVO IEMS and the New Economic School by hosting
a joint research workshop to be held during the upcoming
academic year, and for HKUST’s School of Business to
collaborate with SKOLKOVO on executive MBA training
programs (each side will host their counterpart’s EMBA
students in the coming year).
HKUST IEMS DIRECTOR JOINS UNIVERSITY DELEGATION VISITING
MOSCOW SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SKOLKOVO
EXPERTS ON CHINA’S ENVIRONMENT AND
ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT JOIN IEMS
AS FACULTY ASSOCIATES
To visit the web sites of the above
mentioned institutes, visit
The HKUST delegation with hosts
IEMS welcomes two new members to its 40-strong team of
faculty associates:Prof.
Guojun He
and Prof.
Rachel Ngai
.
An expert on the complex relationship between environment
and human welfare in urban and rural China, Prof. Guojun
He recently completed his PhD from UC-Berkeley and
was a Research Fellow at Harvard University before being
appointed in 2014 as an Assistant Professor at HKUST in
the Department of Economics, Division of Social Science,
a n d D i v i s i o n o f
E n v i r o n m e n t .
Prof. Rachel Ngai,
a n A s s o c i a t e
Professor (Reader) of Economics at the London School of
Economics and a Visiting Fellow at the HKUST Jockey Club Institute
for Advanced Study (IAS), is an expert on macroeconomics,
particularly with regard to growth and development, labor
markets, and housing markets.
Rachel Ngai
Guojun He
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