Chung-Kwong Poon
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Professor Chung-Kwong Poon (Chinese: 潘宗光, born 1940 in Hong Kong with family root in Panyu, Guangdong ) has been President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1991. He received his secondary education at St. Paul's Co-educational College. Trained as a chemist, he holds doctorates of science and of philosophy from the University College London. He has been a visiting scholar at University of Southern California and at California Institute of Technology. In addition to being the chief administrator of Hong Kong's largest scientific/technical university he is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, making him an important figure in the mainland Chinese government.
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