Woo Chia-wei
Chia-Wei Woo | |
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| Inaugural President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| In office 1991–2001 | |
| Chancellor | David Wilson Chris Patten Tung Chee-hwa |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Chu Ching-wu |
| 11th President of San Francisco State University | |
| In office 1983–1988 | |
| Preceded by | Paul F. Romberg |
| Succeeded by | Robert A. Corrigan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 November 1937 Shanghai, China |
| Died | 2 March 2025 (aged 87) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Georgetown College (BS) WUSTL (MA, PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Northwestern University UC San Diego San Francisco State |
| Thesis | Theory of the normal ground state of liquid helium three (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene Feenberg |
Chia-Wei Woo GBS CBE (traditional Chinese: 吳家瑋; simplified Chinese: 吴家玮; pinyin: Wú Jiāwěi; 13 November 1937 – 2 March 2025) was a Hong Kong physicist and educator who was the inaugural president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work included raising funding and recruiting outstanding faculty for the university. With Chung Sze Yuen, Woo created an institution, including a top-ranked Business School, known as the HKUST Business School. The school's MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes have been consistently ranked as Asia's top programmes, and in the World Top 50 MBA programmes by the Financial Times of London. Woo retired in 2001 after 13 years of service and remained President Emeritus as well as University Professor Emeritus.