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Mimi Lau

Georgia Guldan is turning 60 but she is giving up her comfortable lifestyle and academic career in Hong Kong to join the Asian University of Women in Bangladesh this summer. 
Speaking to Education Post Dr Guldan, associate professor of biochemistry with  Chinese University,  said she had spent most of her adult life in teaching and  research in Asia. 
'That will be an adjustment. I've gotten used to the convenient transport, international cultural environment, great university library and rapid communications, and lots more in Hong Kong,' Dr Guldan, who comes  from Wisconsin in the US, said.
'But I've worked for over 30 years in South and Southeast Asia, some of it when the countries were much less developed than they are today.'  
Dr Guldan said she was confident she would be able adjust again.
'I've never had a problem before, living without electricity and having a monotonous diet, etc, as is needed, as long as I feel safe, have supportive colleagues and an adequately hygienic environment,' she said. 
Another reason she was driven to  take up the seemingly challenging post at the Bangladesh-based  university  was that it was the country in which she did her PhD research.
'I love teaching and interacting with students, I also like going where things need to be done and trying to do them. Also, I said my own mission is to contribute to human development and teaching allows me to do this,' she said.
Coming from a food-science background, Dr Guldan will take up one of the three inaugural science professorships at AUW in July. 
'But later, as we have more professors and students, and the students get more specialised and take electives and have research experiences, I'll be able to teach nutrition again,' she said. 
Dr Guldan said most of her future students would likely be from  rural areas where child-mortality rates were high and half the  half the women and children experience malnutrition. 
'For a nutritionist, there will be a lot to do in such an environment,' she said.
Dr Guldan said she first heard of Asian University for Women when a friend invited her to a fund-raising presentation last April.
'I was immediately excited by its mission and location, and from that point on thought I'd like to become part of it,' she said. 
After spending nearly 16 years building up CUHK's food and nutritional sciences programme since its inception in 1994 with a mission of contributing to human development, Dr Guldan applied to AUW in October. 
'I was reaching a retirement milestone age at CUHK, when many professors either retire or else continue a few years longer,' she said. 




CUHK nutritionist puts retirement on hold to take up new challenge