Poon Chung-kwong

Who is Poon Chung-kwong?

Professor Poon Chung-kwong, GBS, OBE, JP was the President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 1991 to 2008.

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 also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

His late cousin was the singer Leslie Cheung.