15 Facts About Lawrence Lau

Lawrence Lau Juen-yee, GBS, JP is a Hong Kong economist and the former Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lawrence Lau was a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2012.

Lawrence Lau joined the faculty of the Department of Economics of Stanford University in 1966 and was promoted to Professor of Economics in 1976.

In 1992, Lawrence Lau was named the first Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development at Stanford University.

Lawrence Lau's specialized fields are Economic Development, Economic Growth, and the Economies of East Asia, including China.

Lawrence Lau developed one of the first econometric models of China in 1966, and has continued to revise and update his model since then.

Lawrence Lau has been elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of Tau Beta Pi, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Academician of Academia Sinica, a Member of the Conference for Research in Income and Wealth, an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, England, an Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

Lawrence Lau has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Lawrence Lau has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Lawrence Lau is the author or editor of five books and more than one hundred and sixty articles and notes in professional publications.

Lawrence Lau moved back to Hong Kong in 2004 to take up the position of Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lawrence Lau is currently the Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In 2015, Lawrence Lau suggested that students who stormed the University of Hong Kong council meeting should be imprisoned.

In January 2009, Lawrence Lau was named a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong by Chief Executive Donald Tsang.

Lawrence Lau renounced his United States citizenship to take up the position.