Professor Andrew Chi-fai CHAN SBS,JP President 陳志輝教授 - 銀紫荊星章,太平紳士 創院院長
Professor Andrew Chi-Fai Chan SBS, JP
Professor Andrew Chan is a famousstrategy/marketing professor and an expert scholar inHong Kong. He studied at St. Joseph's College in HongKong in the seventies. He graduated from the Faculty ofBusiness Administration of the Chinese University ofHong Kong (CUHK) in 1977. Prof. Chan went to theUnited States to further his studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and received a Master of BusinessAdministration degree. He returned to Hong Kong in 1979 and worked inthe banking, business and education sectors. From 1986, whilst teaching atCUHK, he received his Ph.D. degree.
Professor Chan excels in teaching and was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2001 and 2009. He has servedas Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean, Directors of the BBA, MBAand EMBA programmes of the CUHK Business School. From 2010 to 2020,he served as the Head of Shaw College at CUHK. He was awarded anHonorary University Fellow by the Metropolitan University in 2018 and anHonorary Fellow by Shaw College in 2020.
Professor Chan has been actively involved in public service and wasawarded a Justice of the Peace in 2005 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2007.He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Consumer Council from 1999 to 2005,Chairman of the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board from 2004 to 2010,a member of the Electoral Affairs Commission from 2005 to 2012,Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Council from 2011 to 2017 andChairman of the Cantonese Opera Advisory Committee from 2016 to 2022.
Since 2003, he has regularly contributed to the production of the“Talking to CEO” and “New Thinking in Management” Programmes forRTHK.
Professor Chan is currently the Emeritus Professor of the Departmentof Marketing at CUHK, Founding President of the Left-Right CirclesAcademy and Adjunct Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of BusinessAdministration of the University of Macau. He was President of the GBABusiness School from 2020 to 2024.