Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1996

Profiles Prof. Yo k - s h iu F. Le e Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Prof. Lee received his BA, summa cum laude, from the University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was about the development and impact of rural non-farm enterprises i n China. Prof. Lee was made a Fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, in January 1989 and has since conducted research on a wide range of urban environmental management issues in Asia and the Pacific region, including water supply and sanitation, housing, environmental management in low-income settlements, non-governmental and community- based organizations, privatization, and Asia's environmental movements. He has also served as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the Department o f Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii from 1991. Prof. Lee has been a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, and the World Resources Institute. He has published in international journals such as the China Quarterly and the Asian Journal of Environmental Management, and has written for Newsweek International. He has authored and co-authored over 30 journal articles, book chapters, and professional reports. M i s s Yu T s i h - wah Nanc y Senior Student Affairs Officer Office of Student Affairs Upon graduating with a BA degree from the University of Hong Kong, Miss Yu worked as an executive trainee for the Swire Group. She then furthered her studies in Germany and obtained her MBA degree from Hamburg University. Mos t of her working experience thereafter was acquired in the private sector until recent years when she served in The Community Chest of Hong Kong as secretary to key committees and subcommittees, including the Admissions, Budgets and Allocations Committee, the Investments and Endowment Funds Subcommittee, the Public Relations Committee, the Marketing and Publicity Strategies Subcommittee, and the Membershi p Drive Organizing Committee. In the University's Office of Student Affairs, which she joined in December 1995, she is responsible for developing two key services for students — the Appointments Service, and Scholarships and Financial Aid.