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Leonard Cheng Kwok-Hon,

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, JP ( zh, 鄭國漢; born November 1952) is the current president of the Lingnan University of Hong Kong. Before that he was appointed Dean of the School of Business and Management of the

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from 2009 to 2013. Cheng graduated with first-class honours in Social Science in Economics at

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. He then went to the

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and obtained his MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the

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. After earning his doctorate he pursued a teaching career in

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for 12 years and subsequently returned to

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. In July 1992 he was one of the founding members of his department at

where he stayed until he assumed his office at

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. During his capacity as Head of Economics he successively undertook several leading positions in the School of Business and steered different collaboration projects one of which, i.e. the joint EMBA Programme in Asia with the

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. The programme was launched in 1997 and was ranked the best in the world by the

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consecutively from 2009 to 2012. In September 2013 Cheng became the third President of Lingnan University of Hong Kong and also the Chair Professor of Economics.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheng, Leonard 1952 births living people Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026