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Chris Chan
Professor Chris WH Chan 陳維康 is Professor of Accounting at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and Dean of the Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management (CNI). Stationed in Singapore with Pan-Asian responsibilities, Professor Chan provides academic, intellectual, strategic, and administrative leadership to the institute with the mission to further elevate the Cornell brand in Asia.
Professor Chan was previously Associate Professor of Accounting as well as Assistant Dean and Director of MBA programs at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he was responsible for brand development, marketing and admissions, financial and program management, academic and student affairs, and corporate and media relations. Under his leadership, the HKU MBA was ranked by The Economist Global MBA Ranking 2010 as No. 1 in Asia. Professor Chan has extensive teaching experience for various MBA and EMBA programs in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Singapore, and Sydney. Courses taught include Accounting for Business Decisions, Corporate Finance, Management Control, Corporate Governance, and Social Responsibility and Sustainability.
In 2009, Professor Chan was one of five professors who were awarded the prestigious university-wide Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Hong Kong. This award recognizes excellence in teaching and engagement with students and their learning, and in curriculum design, renewal, and innovation. He has also been a two-time winner of the Business Faculty’s Outstanding Teacher Award between 2004 and 2008.
Professor Chan has a diverse consulting and executive education portfolio with a wide range of companies in the Asia-Pacific region. His work has focused on strategic brand development, financial performance metrics, corporate governance, social responsibility, and sustainability. He has also developed corporate business cases and/or taught executive education courses for a number of clients including LVMH, ABN Amro Bank, China MinSheng Bank, Lucent Technologies, Agilent Technologies, General Mills, Hong Kong Government Civil Service Bureau, SGS, TAL, Shangri-la Hotels, New World Mobility, and South China Morning Post. In recent years Professor Chan has conducted a number of very successful executive-level MBA courses at Fudan University in Shanghai, as well as delivered development programs and professional seminars to executives of multinational companies based in China.
Professor Chan is frequently invited to speak at various business conferences and workshops as a keynote or panel speaker on corporate governance, social responsibility and sustainability, human capital development, and luxury industries in Asia. Recent speaking partners include AmCham Hong Kong, AmCham Singapore, Singapore HR Congress, London Business School Asia Business Forum, Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management, and HRO Asia Pacific Conference.
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