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previous role as Senior Manager in Public Relations for the Hong Kong Tourist Association. Primarily responsible for the
overall public relations strategy, Ms. Chong was instrumental in promoting Hong Kong as one of the world’s leading tourist
destinations pre- and post-Hong Kong’s handover to China. With this inherent understanding of the global tourist industry,
at Cathay Pacific Ms. Chong set about promoting CX as Asia’s leading carrier.
• Audrey Eu, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and house leader of the Civic Party. Ms. Eu began practicing
as a barrister in Hong Kong in 1978 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Senior Counsel after 1997) in 1993. Before her
entrance into politics, Ms. Eu was the chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association. From 1995-2003, Ms. Eu was Deputy
Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board of Review at the Finance Bureau. She was a major force behind the creation of the
Civic Party in the spring of 2006.
While in Hong Kong, the students also organized group trips to cultural sites in Hong Kong, as well as a factory tour in
Shenzhen, and a trip to Macau.
A Shanghai component was added to this year’s TILIP. Sponsored by IGL External
Advisory Board Member Gerald Chan and his company Morningside, and coordinated
by Lisa Wang, the two-week Shanghai program focused on issues of urbanization in
the greater Shanghai region. An added element was that local universities were asked
to nominate representatives to participate along with the students already in the
program. The universities represented were Shanghai Jiao Tong, Fudan, Tongji, and
Zhejiang. With the focus of the 2006-07 topic being Asia’s Rising Giants: China and India, the IGL initiated its collaboration
with the Rai Foundation in India, and one student from New Delhi also participated.
The two-week seminar featured morning lectures followed by afternoon site visits.
The lectures included: “Urban Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure” by Mr.
Chen Haichao, General Manager of Atkins China; “History of Concessions in Shanghai”
by Dr. Zhang Feng, Professor of Architecture at Tongji University; “From Rural Area to
Oriental Manhattan: The Successful Experience of Pudong” by Professor Peng Yun’e of
Tongji University; “Shanghai’s Shift
to a Higher Value-Added Economic
Base” by Mr. Zhang Jiong, General
Manager of Shanghai Juke Biotech
Park; “Shanghai’s Relocation Policy” by Mr. He Guoping, an Attorney;
“Urbanization and the Migrant Worker” by Professor Zhou Haiwang of the
Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences; and “Environmental Challenges of
Shanghai” by Professor Li Fengting, the Deputy Director of the College of
Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Tongji University. The site visits
included the Museum of
Urban Planning Shanghai,
the Old City and Yu Garden, the Bund, the French Concession, Lujiazui
Financial Area, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Relocation Communities, and
the Water Environment Exhibition Hall. The students also went on a tour
of Jewish Shanghai. For the weekend, Morningside arranged an overnight
stay on Chongming Island, an experiment in sustainable development, just
off of Shanghai’s coast at the mouth of the Yangtze.
One of the students commented, “The urbanization of Pudong over the past
15 years is astounding. After personally seeing all the interesting structures
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