“Edmond Ko was Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion Inno­va­tion and Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing at The Hong Kong Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (HKUST). Pri­or to that, he served as Vice- Pres­i­dent (Under­grad­u­ate Edu­ca­tion), Dean of Stu­dents, and Pro­fes­sor (Chair) of Chem­istry at City Uni­ver­si­ty of Hong Kong (CityU), and as the Vice Provost for Edu­ca­tion and Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing at Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty. Pro­fes­sor Ko received his B.S. in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. He worked as a Research Fel­low at the Cor­po­rate Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Exxon (1975–76) and held vis­it­ing and guest fac­ul­ty appoint­ments at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley (1987–88), the Hong Kong Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (1995), Cal­i­for­nia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (1996) and Tian­jin Uni­ver­si­ty (since 2002).

Besides being the co-author of over 100 pub­li­ca­tions and co-inven­tor of one U.S. patent in the area of sur­face sci­ence and catal­y­sis, Pro­fes­sor Ko was an accom­plished edu­ca­tor. He received nine teach­ing awards in his career, includ­ing the William H. and Frances S. Ryan Teach­ing Award at Carnegie Mel­lon, the Chem­i­cal Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion Nation­al Cat­a­lyst Award, the W. M. Keck Foun­da­tion Engi­neer­ing Teach­ing Excel­lence Award, the W. E. Wick­enden Award of the Amer­i­can Soci­ety for Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion, and the School of Engi­neer­ing Teach­ing Award at HKUST.

Pro­fes­sor Ko had nine years of aca­d­e­m­ic admin­is­tra­tive expe­ri­ence, with the first two at Carnegie Mel­lon and the last sev­en at CityU. As the key per­son charged to improve edu­ca­tion at these two insti­tu­tions, he direct­ed activ­i­ties in stu­dent recruit­ment and admis­sions, stu­dent devel­op­ment, stu­dent res­i­dence, cur­ricu­lum design, qual­i­ty assur­ance, and fac­ul­ty devel­op­ment. He was par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing an out­come-based approach to enhance stu­dent learn­ing.

Serv­ing as Chair­man of the Cur­ricu­lum Devel­op­ment Coun­cil and a mem­ber of the Qual­i­ty Assur­ance Coun­cil of the Uni­ver­si­ty Grants Com­mit­tee, Edu­ca­tion Com­mis­sion, and Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee on Teacher Edu­ca­tion and Qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the HKSAR Gov­ern­ment, Pro­fes­sor Ko was deeply involved in the for­mu­la­tion and imple­men­ta­tion of edu­ca­tion poli­cies in Hong Kong at all lev­els. He was also a coun­cil mem­ber of the Hong Kong Coun­cil for Accred­i­ta­tion of Aca­d­e­m­ic and Voca­tion­al Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Hong Kong Insti­tute of Edu­ca­tion.

As some­one who has spent about half of his life liv­ing and work­ing in the US and the oth­er half in Hong Kong, Pro­fes­sor Ko was keen­ly aware of the impor­tance of being able to work com­fort­ably and effec­tive­ly across cul­tures. He cre­at­ed many cross-cul­tur­al learn­ing expe­ri­ences for CityU and HKUST stu­dents, includ­ing con­duct­ing work­shops on inter­cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion him­self. He also pub­lished 7 books and numer­ous arti­cles on a wide range of edu­ca­tion­al issues in both Eng­lish and Chi­nese since return­ing to Hong Kong in 1998.
 
Source: http://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/sources/ProfKoBio.pdf