Monetary Authority ambassador gains financial insight
Technology and Management (T&M) Dual Degree student Stanley Kwok Pui-sum is adding first-hand knowledge of the financial world to his HKUST studies after being selected as a student ambassador by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).
In his part-time ambassador’s role, Stanley (Yr 2, Logistics Management and General Business Management) is working with the Authority’s information center helping with guided tours, seminars and other public education programs. The HKMA information center, comprising an exhibition area and a library, is located in Two International Finance Centre in Central.
The annual student ambassador program gives undergraduates the opportunity to learn more about the work of the Authority and related financial issues and also to gain experience of organizing large-scale events. It provides initial training.
The program, which runs over nine months from October, is open to non-final year university students in Hong Kong. Ambassadors need to be fluent in Cantonese, Putonghua and English, and to demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills. For 2006-07, nine students were chosen as ambassadors.
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.
