Kerry Holdings Professor in Law Douglas Arner Awarded Inaugural RGC Senior Research Fellowship

 

Kerry Holdings Professor in Law Douglas Arner Awarded Inaugural RGC Senior Research Fellowship

Seven academics across different academic backgrounds from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) were awarded under the inaugural Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) and Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) of the Research Grants Council (RGC), for their distinguished research achievements and significant contributions to the higher education sector. Among them, four were conferred as Senior Research Fellows and three were conferred as Research Fellows, in an award presentation ceremony held by RGC in November 2020.     The schemes aim to provide sustained support and relief from teaching and administrative duties to exceptionally outstanding researchers at Associate Professor or full Professor ranks at University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded universities in Hong Kong. Ten places across all academic disciplines are awarded under each scheme. The seven HKU recipients are: RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme Professor Douglas Wayne ARNER Kerry Holdings Professor in Law and Director, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law Professor Giulio CHIRIBELLA Professor and Director, QICI Quantum Information and Computation Initiative, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering Professor Benjamin John COWLING Professor, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Professor Chuyang TANG Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering RGC Research Fellow Scheme Professor David Alexander PALMER Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences Dr. Shelley Xiuli TONG Associate Professor, Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, Faculty of Education Professor Kevin Kin Man TSIA Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Biographies of the awardee: RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme Professor Douglas Wayne ARNER, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law and Director, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law Project title: Digital Finance, Financial Inclusion and Sustainability: Building Better Financial Systems Professor Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law and Director and co-founder of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Arner has published 18 books and more than 200 articles, chapters and reports on international financial law and regulation, including recently Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge 2016) and The RegTech Book (Wiley 2019). He is one of the top 1% of all authors on SSRN, where his work has been downloaded more than 100,000 times. From 2012-2018, Professor Arner coordinated an RGC Theme-based Research Scheme project on Hong Kong's role and future as an international financial centre. He leads Introduction to FinTech – launched with edX in May 2018 and now with over 80,000 learners spanning every country in the world. Professor Arner has advised on financial sector development projects around the world, as an advisor to, among others, the UN, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC, Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has lectured and co-organised conferences and events across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Africa, and has been a visiting professor at Duke, Harvard, McGill, Melbourne, NUS, UNSW, and Zurich, among others.