Live from Hong Kong: the economic fallout of the COVID19 pandemic

25/03/2020

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Live from Hong Kong with Prof. Richard Wong
[Live NOW from HK]]Learn from HKU Experts about the COVID19 Pandemic – The Economic FalloutWhat is the extent of disruption and the global economic outlook beyond the #COVID19 outbreak? Ask Professor Richard Wong, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Chair of Economics and the Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy at HKU by leaving your comments or or tweeting #HKUCOVID19 #sree.

由 HKU 100 發佈於 2020年3月25日星期三

Live with Professor Richard Wong, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Chair of Economics and the Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy at The University of Hong Kong. He will take your questions from around the world.

Moderator: NYC-based Sree Sreenivasan, a social and digital media expert and Marshall Loeb Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation at Stony Brook University, New York

This is the second episode of the #HKUCovid19 series, a global dialogue with HKU experts online.

Speaker: Professor Richard Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago in 1985 and at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has served on numerous public bodies in Hong Kong, concerning Exchange Fund, public housing, industry and technology development, and higher education funding.

His current research focuses on public housing, inequality and intergenerational mobility, political economy of laissez faire in Hong Kong, and regional economic development in China.