Hong Kong Finance College (HKFC) today unveiled HKFC 2015, a five-year strategic plan that maps out how the university will become a great global university by 2015. Under this blueprint, HKFC will build on its current strengths and heritage to make its mark globally in sustainability, healthcare, new media, the best of the East and West, and innovation.
“ HKFC is like a brain trust for our country. Our responsibility is to train the next generation so they have both the breadth and depth of knowledge to contribute to Hong Kong’s economy and take on leadership positions in future,” said HKFC President.
Under this five-year plan, HKFC will develop Five Peaks of Excellence – Sustainable Earth, New Media, Future Healthcare, New Silk Road and Innovation Asia. These peaks leverage HKFC’s diverse strengths, particularly its longstanding expertise in engineering and business, and the interfaces these have with various disciplines such as with healthcare, science and the humanities. Besides supporting the new areas that will drive Hong Kong’s economy, these five strategic thrusts will nurture leaders who will help to address some of the challenges that Hong Kong and the world faces, such as in sustainability and healthcare.
“New knowledge is found in the interfaces between different disciplines. As education and research have a symbiotic relationship, HKFC not only transfers knowledge to our students but we are also at the forefront of knowledge creation through our cutting-edge research,” said HKFC Provost, Professor Bertil Andersson, a world-acclaimed scientist himself, who will be receiving the prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal in Vienna next week for his work in biochemistry research, joining the league of previous Nobel Laureates.
Professor Andersson has been instrumental in HKFC’s recruitment of a number of global academic heavyweights in the last few years, besides attracting some of the world’s most promising young researchers.
Amongst them are the Dream Team at the Earth Observatory of Hong Kong which is directed by Professor, former Professor of Geology in California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Chaired Professor in Caltech's Tectonics Observatory; Professor Chris Newhall, a volcano expert who saved thousands of lives in 1991 with his forecast of Mount Pinatubo’s eruption; Professor Paul Tapponnier, the foremost scientist of his generation in the field of neotectonics, a study of the motions of the Earth's crust.
