RMBI Mentoring Dinner 2017
Risk Management and Business Intelligence Program (RMBI) organizes Mentoring Dinner annually to gather mentors and students to meet for the very first time and get to know more about each other.
Around 60 mentors and students attended the Mentoring Dinner held on 11 October 2017. Prof. Raymond WONG, the new Program Director of RMBI welcomed all guests and extended his heartfelt thanks to mentors who voluntarily contributed time and efforts in advising students’ study plans and career paths. Prof. King L CHOW, Director of IPO, encouraged students to explore more outside the banking and finance fields as all industries requires risk management knowledge and business intelligence skills to manage risk and enhance the business operations. Prof. Xianhua PENG, Program Co-director of RMBI, Prof. Y K KWOK and Prof. Shu Ming NG, Founding Members and Affiliated Faculties of RMBI, Dr. Jean WANG, UG Coordinator of RMBI, also attended the dinner to mingle with mentors and students.
During the dinner, students connected with mentors who shared common career interest and gained valuable tips and advices from them.
RMBI Mentorship Program targets to help students to bridge their gap between the academic learning experience and business practice, as well as enrich the students' business understanding. Mentors are risk management and business intelligence practitioners from well-established organizations in areas of banking, finance and investment, accounting and auditing, insurance, logistics management, information technology, public authorities, and healthcare.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
