HKUL Centenary Book Talk: Professor Frederick Ma on "Steve Jobs" (English Only)

Speaker: Professor Frederick S. H. Ma (馬時亨教授)
Moderator: Dr Elaine K. M. Chan  (陳劍梅博士)
Date: 31 January 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, HKU
Language: Cantonese (廣東話)

About the Speaker
Professor Frederick Ma Si-Hang, GBS, JP, was born and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1973 majoring in economics and history.  Since graduation, he had taken up different major positions of various local and overseas banks, financial institutions and major companies.  In 2002, he joined the Hong Kong Government as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury and assumed the post of Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development in 2007.  He resigned from the Government in July 2008 due to medical reasons.  In October 2008, he was appointed as an Honorary Professor of the School of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. 

About the Moderator
Dr Elaine Chan taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses at Lingnan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the areas of film and cinema studies and Hong Kong popular culture respectively between 2005 and 2010.  She also developed and co-taught General Education programmes at the University of Hong Kong between 2007 and 2011.  She received her Ph.D. at the University of Kent, UK. Her areas of research include cinema studies, cultural theories, gender politics and popular culture.  Her articles appeared in journals and newspapers such as Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Crossover, Film Bi-weekly, Ming Pao, and Hong Kong Economic Times.  She was also director and producer of television commercials and documentaries.

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