Background
He is the grandson of the co-founder of the Bank of East Asia, Li Koon-chun, and brother of its current chairman, David Li.
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Arthur Li
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University of Cambridge. Harvard Medical School.
Career
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. 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 such as English and history, and ordering that teachers take benchmark assessments to prove their language abilities.
Li ostensibly retired from public service in 2007.
In the role, he caused controversy by proposing mergers first between Chinese University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and later between Chinese University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Li"s appointment by CY Leung to the governing board of the University of Hong Kong in 2015 met with strong criticism from staff, a poll shows most of them have little to no confidence in him will uphold academic freedom, and his generally hostile attitude and criticism toward university staff only exacerbated the problem further.
Reputation
His leadership style has seen him being referred to as "King Arthur" or even "the Tsar". 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
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
Honorary Fellow of the America College of Surgeons
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Glasgow
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Membership
Six months later, when it became known that Li was likely to take over the chairmanship of the Council upon the expiry of the term of Edward Leong on 6 November, there was further strong opposition, with 87 percent of members of HKU Academic Staff Association and almost three-quarters of members of the Professional Teachers Union opposed, due to his stance during the University of Hong Kong pro-vice-chancellor selection controversy. 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.
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