Bulletin No. 2, 2019

44 Chinese University Bulletin No.2, 2019 Experts Share Thoughts on Sustainability The Hong Kong Chapter of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and CUHK’s Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change jointly held the forum ‘365 Ways to Change the World—From Creative Entrepreneurship to Antarctic Exploration’ on 28 October 2019. Talks were given by Dr. Guido Schmidt-Traub, Executive Director of SDSN, and Prof. Wu Ka-ming of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies. The speakers shared their views on conundrums like climate change and trash crisis, and highlighted universities’ roles in fostering coordinated responses and realizing sustainability. Professor Wu also dealt with her expedition to Antarctica, where she discussed sustainability with other female scholars. Glass Ceilings and the Law The Faculty of Law presented its first Female Legal Leaders Seminar on 4 November 2019. Three distinguished female legal practitioners, Ms. Emma Davies (left), Partner of Clifford Chance, the Honourable Mrs. Justice Audrey Campbell-Moffat (centre), Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong and Ms. Anna Wu Hung-yuk (right), former Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission and currently Chair of the Competition Commission of Hong Kong discussed the highlights of their careers and dealt with gender topics, ranging from the difficulties faced by female solicitors in juggling career and family, the personal leeway enjoyed by female barristers to the thrust of equal opportunities to afford equal respect to all. I ntellectual C ross - currents Pioneer of DNA Repairing Speaks at CUHK On 26 September 2019, Prof. Maria Jasin, Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine 2019, shared her findings on ‘Genome Modification by Natural and Artificial DNA Breaks’, where she briefly explained the way her laboratory used artificial double-strand breaks to create genomic rearrangement, which laid the foundation for all subsequent gene editing studies. On the Crest of FinTech Wave Hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and supported by the Centre for Financial Engineering and the Faculty of Business Administration, the 2019 CUHK Conference on Financial Technology (FinTech) took place on 4 November 2019. Close to 500 representatives from banking, technology and legal sectors, academics, government officials and regulators converged to explore the explosive FinTech development under the theme ‘When Wall Street Met Main Street—Real vs Virtual Economy’. Topics discussed included AI, biometrics, crypto assets, decentralized finance, machine learning, regulatory technology, tokenization, among others.