Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture

The Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture is a major academic programme of the College, which has been in operation since 1990. The intention of the programme is to invite every year internationally distinguished scholar to visit the College to deliver a public lecture together with other programmes as appropriate, and meeting with students.

  • Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar LectureProfessor David SC HUI,
    Chairman, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar LectureProfessor Emily Ying-yang CHAN,
    Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine; Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Chief Executive Officer, GX Foundation

Past Lectures

Civic education in the information era (19 January 2011)

Professor Harry LEWIS, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard College Professor of Harvard University

From pigs, ducks and goats, to active citizenship: the transformation of traditional aid to rights-based development (3 February 2010)

Mr. Jeremy HOBBS, Executive Director of Oxfam International