Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1997

University, Singapore, in 1966 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Sydney in 1971. After receiving his doctorate degree. Prof. Ng taught economics at the University of New England in Australia for three years. He then joined Monash University where he was first reader of economics for 1 years, and the n personal chair in economics from 1985 to 1996. Prof. Ng has taught in a visiting capacity at universities the wo r l d over. These include the University of Hong Kong, the University of Maryland at College Park, the Un i ve r s i ty of Melbourne, the Un i ve r s i t y of Copenhagen, Roskilde University, La Trobe University, and the World Bank i n Washington, DC. He was also visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at Tulane University in the US in 1987-88. Prof. Ng has been on the editorial board of numerous journals such as Mathematical Social Sciences, Social Choice and Welfare, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a nd Economic Record. H i s other professional activities include participation in the Programme Committee of the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting in 1985, and the Advisory Board of the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, in 1988-89. Prof. Charles Arthur Ingene Professor of Marketing Prof. Charles Arthur Ingene has been appointed professor of marketing from 6th January 1997. Prof. Ingene completed his undergraduate studies at Washington University, Missouri, in 1969. He thenwent to Brown University where he obtained his AM in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1975. From 1974 to 1979 Prof. Ingene was assistant professor first at the University of Oklahoma and then at the University of Texas at Dallas. In the subsequent two years he was visiting associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he became associate professor in 1984, and professor in 1986. During Prof. Ingene's term of professorship, he was also Nordstrom Professor of Retail Marketing at the University of Washington (1986-93), the Frank Talbot Jr. Visiting Professor of Marketing at the University of Virginia (1988-89), and Wilson T. S. Wang Distinguished International Professor at The Chinese University (1992). Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 1997 4 4