Arthur Li

Arthur Li Kwok-cheung GBS JP (simplified Chinese: 李国章; traditional Chinese: 李國章; pinyin: Lǐ Guózhāng; born 1945 in Hong Kong) was a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Secretary for Education and Manpower from August 2002 to June 2007.

Before his appointment, Arthur Li was the Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as:

• Professor of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK
• Member of the Education Commission and Member of the Committee on Science and Technology
• Member of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority
• Member of the Hong Kong Medical Council
• Member of the University Grants Committee
• Member of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong
• Member of the Hospital Governing Committee of United Christian Hospital, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
• Member of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
• Vice-President of the Association of University Presidents of China
• Patron of the Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• Regent of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association
• Hon Fellow of the America College of Surgeons
• Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Glasgow
• Hon Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

An alumnus of St. Paul's Co-educational College and a classmate of Professor Lawrence J. Lau, Li received his medical training at the University of Cambridge. He was subsequently trained at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Harvard Medical School, before returning to Hong Kong to become the founding chairman of the Department of Surgery and Dean of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is married to Diana Chester, a graduate of Newhall College Cambridge.

Political career

Li's tenure as Secretary for Education and Manpower was marked by an era of education reforms that included the School-Based Management Policy.

Since 2000, the Education and Manpower Bureau has implemented a number of mandates, which include making teachers spend more time with students outside the classroom, adding exams for subjects like English and history, and ordering that teachers take benchmark assessments to prove their language abilities. After instituting wide ranging and successful changes, Li retired from public service in 2007.

See also

• Politics of Hong Kong
• Executive Council of Hong Kong
• School-Based Management Policy

References

External links

• Biography of Arthur Li on the Government website