Professor Kira Matus Head, Division of Public Policy HEAD’S MESSAGE 2 At its core, the mission of HKUST and the Division of Public Policy is to act as catalysts for our students’ success. In this issue of the PPOL Newsletter, we highlight the huge range of our students’ activities and achievements. These occur in many venues – from the classroom to the boardroom; but also on the beach and the basketball court. Our students are driven by a combination of curiosity about the world, and a desire to develop rigorous problem solving skills. They have traveled near and far in order to see for themselves how policy can be used to solve pressing social problems. They have strolled around Hong Kong, learning about its culture and history. Their international success in the Global Sustainability Challenge competition demonstrates their excellence in developing their professional policy design skills, and applying rigorous analysis creatively and convincingly to some of the most challenging emerging sustainability policy problems. Despite the rigor of their studies, our students also thrive beyond the bounds of their academic pursuits. Each of our students has a different journey through their time with us at PPOL, and that involves everything from happy hours to movie screenings to beach hikes. They bring to us many talents, and we are proud to see them demonstrate this on the HKUST “Piano for All,” on competitive sports teams, and through their community service activities. At PPOL, we are immensely proud of the many and diverse ways that our students nd to be a positive force in the world. We are reminded of this every time we reconnect with our alumni. Building impact has always been a key driver behind PPOL, and each of our students has a lifetime of this in front of them. I hope that this newsletter helps you to see how our PPOL students, past and present, are truly a positive force in our society.
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