CIUA Director Gordon Houlden and Dr. Jonathan Choi
UAlberta's honorary doctor of laws recipient Jonathan Choi (蔡冠深) spent two days on the university campus this week. Choi visited the China Institute, the Mactaggart Art Collection, the Peter Lougheed Leadership College and also met with senior university leaders and provincial government representatives.
Choi is a respected, successful business leader in Hong Kong who is also deeply committed to philanthropy, particularly in the fields of education and technological development in China and abroad.
With firm ties to the community, Choi is also committed to giving back through the charitable Sunwah Foundation, which was established to direct numerous philanthropic endeavours in education, technology and the arts. Choi and his family have donated $25 million to charitable causes. Along with scholarships and funding for new facilities at universities in China, Vietnam, the United Kingdom and the United States, the foundation has also provided support for research centres and schools that seek to develop and implement innovations in education.
Choi's degree conferral and ceremony was held in Hong Kong on October 14, 2015.