Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2006

Fifth Honorary Fellowship Conferment Ceremony 17 Mr. Lee Ting Chang, Peter C hairman of Hysan Development Company Limited, Mr. Peter Ting Chang Lee is an outstanding entrepreneur of great renown. Mr. Lee obtained his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom; he also qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. In 1988, Mr. Lee joined the Board of Directors of Hysan Development Company Limited, becoming managing director in 1999 and chairman in 2001. Under his excellent leadership, Hysan Development Company grew from strength to strength. The Company has also received various awards for good corporate governance over the past few years. A valuable contributor to Hong Kong’s economic development, Mr. Lee is currently a non-executive director of a number of companies, including Lee Hysan Estate Company, Cathay Pacific Airways, South China Morning Post , Hang Seng Bank, and Maersk (China). Mr. Lee is the vice-president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a council member of the Employees’ Federation of Hong Kong, advisory board member of The Salvation Army Hong Kong and Macau Command, and chairman of its Administration Committee. He has served twice as part-time member of the Hong Kong Government’s Central Policy Unit both before and after 1997. Mr. Lee has been a staunch promoter of education: he has been a member of the Education Commission in Hong Kong and a founding council member and treasurer of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and is currently international council member of INSEAD. The Chinese University has, since its inception, benefited from the staunch munificence of the Lee Family. As a Governor of the Lee Hysan Foundation, Mr. Lee has proven his magnanimity to the University time and again by means of sustained support for scholarships, academic conferences and seminars, professorships, acquisition funds, promotion of Chinese studies, archaeology and art. The Foundation has made a very generous donation towards the construction of the Lee Hysan Concert Hall, an innovative facility celebrated for its excellent acoustics. The hall is an ideal venue for the performances of the University’s Music Department. Recently, the Foundation rendered handsome financial support to the construction of a new annex to the Art Museum, which will be used to display archaeological finds. An illustrious entrepreneur and a dedicated philanthropist, Mr. Lee was made an unofficial Justice of the Peace in 1996.