Hong Kong University set to launch third global search to fill No 2 management position
- Latest effort to find provost and deputy vice chancellor comes after resignation of Paul Tam, who held post on interim basis
Hong Kong’s oldest university will conduct a third global search as early as next month in a bid to fill its No 2 management post, the Post has learned, with the position vacant for more than 3½ years.
“Vice chancellor Zhang Xiang hopes to start a new search for provost as soon as possible,” a university source said. “It could begin within weeks.”
The university’s governing council will receive Tam’s resignation from the role on Tuesday and discuss whether to approve moderate pro-establishment scholar Richard Wong Yue-chim as his successor, also on an interim basis.
Tam, the school’s vice-president from 2003 to 2015, served as acting and later interim provost since July 2015, and is effectively in charge of university operations and major recruitment decisions.