Lawrence Lau
| Lawrence Lau | |
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| Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | |
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Assumed office 21 January 2009 |
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| President | Sir Donald Tsang |
| Convenor | Ronald Arculli |
| Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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In office 1 July 2004 – 30 June 2010 |
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| Chancellor |
Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang |
| Preceded by | Ambrose King |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Sung |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 December 1944 Zunyi, Guizhou, Republic of China |
| Alma mater |
St. Paul's Co-educational College BSc in Physics and Economics by Stanford University MA in Economics by University of California, Berkeley PhD in Economics by University of California, Berkeley |
Professor Lawrence Lau Juen-yee, JP (Chinese: 劉遵義; born 1944) is a Hong Kong economist and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2012. Before joining CUHK he was an economics professor at Stanford University.
Lau was born on 12 December 1944 in Zunyi, Guizhou. His maternal grandfather was famed calligrapher and Kuomingtang leader Yu You-ren of Shaanxi Province. He received his secondary education from St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong, his B.S. degree in Physics and Economics, with Great Distinction, from Stanford University in 1964, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and 1969 respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Economics of Stanford University in 1966 and was promoted to Professor of Economics in 1976.
In 1992, Lau was named the first Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development at Stanford University. From 1992 to 1996, he served as a Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University. From 1997 to 1999, he served as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) of Stanford University. His specialized fields are Economic Development, Economic Growth, and the Economies of East Asia, including China. He developed one of the first econometric models of China in 1966, and has continued to revise and update his model since then.
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