Speakers
Prof. Frederik Anseel
Professor Frederik Anseel is the sixth Dean of HKUST Business School and a tenured Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Previously, he was Dean at UNSW Sydney Business School, Vice Dean at King's College London (UK), Head of Department at Ghent University (Belgium) and Visiting Professor at ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and at Bocconi (Milan, Italy).
Prof. Frederik Anseel will be speaking on June 12th at 10:45-11:45.
Prof. Cassian Cheung
Professor Cassian Cheung Professor was the chief executive officer of Next Digital Limited, a leading media company in Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 2011 to January 2018. Cassian also served as an independent non-executive director of Trinity Ltd., a Fung Group company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Cassian was the President of Wal-Mart China Co Ltd. where he led the expansion of Wal-Mart retail stores and managed a team of 20,000 associates in China. Prior to joining Walmart, he was the President of Quaker Oats Asia, Inc. He started his career at The Nestlé Company in the USA and was Chief Operating Officer-PRC for Nestlé (China) Ltd.
Cassian is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he received an MBA degree. He is also an advisory member of the Global Business program of the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”). Since 2005, he has been an adjunct professor teaching management courses in both the Master of Business Administration program and the undergraduate Global Business program at the School. Cassian was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at St. Joseph’s College of Indiana, where he had studied for his bachelor’s degree.
Prof. Cassian Cheung will be speaking on June 12th at 14:00-15:00.
Prof. Joon Nak CHOI (JC)
Professor Joon Nak CHOI (JC) Joon Nak CHOI (JC) holds academic appointments as Advisor to the MSc in Business Analytics and Adjunct Assistant Professor at HKUST Business School, and as Faculty Associate at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at HKUST; he has also held visiting professorships at Stanford University and NYU Shanghai. He has worked in the private sector as a management consultant and an entrepreneur, having founded data science startups Zectr and Learnovate in Hong Kong. His work has been cited in the MIT Technology Review, the South China Morning Post, Sina.com, and the United Nations; his editorials have been published in some of the most widely read newspapers in Asia, including the South China Morning Post and the Maeil Kyungjae Daily.
Prof. Joon Nak Choi will be speaking on June 11th at 10:45-11:45.