Arthur Li

The Honourable Arthur Li Kwok-cheung GBS, JP 李國章
Arthur Li Kwok-cheung (left)
Vice-Chancellor of Chinese University of Hong Kong
In office 1996–2002
Chancellor	Lord Patten of Barnes Tung Chee-hwa
Preceded by	Charles Kao
Succeeded by	Ambrose King
Secretary for Education and Manpower
In office 2002–2007
Preceded by	Fanny Law
Succeeded by	Michael Suen
Personal details
Born	(1945-06-27) 27 June 1945
Spouse(s)	Diana Chester; 2 children
Relations	Pui-choy Li (great grandfather) Fook-shui Li (father) Tze-ha Wu (mother) David Li (brother) Athena Li (granddaughter)

Arthur Li Kwok-cheung GBS JP (born 27 June 1945 in Hong Kong), grandson of the co-founder of the Bank of East Asia, Li Koon-chun, and brother of its current chairman, is a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and was Secretary for Education and Manpower from August 2002 to June 2007.

Career

Before his appointment, Li was Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 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.

Controversially, in March 2015, Li was appointed to the Council of the University of Hong Kong^[1] whose professors he promptly criticised for either “failing to carry out properly their duties in research and teaching” or having “become intellectually incompetent”.^[2]

Family

He was married to Diana Chester, a graduate of Cambridge University, Diana passed away in 2013. He has two sons, Alexander and Peter.

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, including having 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. 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

• Arthur Li profile at Hong Kong Government website (archive)