Donor
Ms Clarea Au
Ms Clarea Au is a successful entrepreneur and has made significant contributions to the financial services industry in Hong Kong. She is founder and major shareholder of CL Group (Holdings) Limited, a company listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She has substantial experience in private equity investment, particularly in socially responsible investments that bring positive impacts to our society and the environment.
Ms Au is actively involved in voluntary and charity work. She was Vice Chairman of Yan Oi Tong and has served the organization from 2007 to 2015. In 2010, together with Yan Oi Tong, she made a donation to PolyU to establish The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Yan Oi Tong Au Suet Ming Child Development Centre for Giftedness and has since played an active role in the Steering Committee of the Centre, which provides teachers and parents with the knowledge and skills to promote the development and learning of gifted children. Passionate about improving the well-being of elderly people, she has also made a donation to the Charles K. Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease to establish the Yan Oi Tong Clarea Au Eldergarten. Collaborating with the Foundation, the Eldergarten improves the quality of life by provides assessment service, day-care, and training programmes for Alzheimer's disease patients.
In January 2013, Ms Au rendered further support to PolyU through Cheong Lee Securities Limited by being the title sponsor of the University’s annual fund-raising golf tournament.
Appointee
Professor Raymond Wong
Professor Raymond Wong is currently Chair Professor of Chemical Technology at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology and Dean of Faculty of Science of PolyU. Professor Wong finds great interest in the design and synthesis of new molecular functional materials, and metallopolymers with photofunctional properties and energy functions, with his scope of work ranging from innovative research to application studies. At present, his team is working on sustainable energy sources and improving energy conversion technologies to meet the world’s future energy demand and work towards a cleaner environment.
Professor Wong has published more than 700 research papers in leading international scientific journals and is among the world’s top 1% on the Institute for Scientific Information list of most-cited chemists and materials scientists. He was named one of the Highly Cited Researchers for seven consecutive years (2014–2020) by Thomson Reuters, now known as Clarivate Analytics.
Professor Wong was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2005 and was a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences. Being the first Chinese scientist presented with the RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award, he was decorated with countless international and national awards. He also won the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the Natural Science Award (First Class) of the Ministry of Education, the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, the JPA Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, the State Natural Science Award (Second Class), and the RGC (Research Grants Council) Senior Research Fellow Award, among others.
