On 4th October 2013, City University of Macan (CUM) singed a contract with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education for the joint establishment of “Oxford – Macau Centre for Advanced Global Studies”, which signifies the academic cooperation between two institutions.
Prior to the contract signing session, Mr Meng Kam Chan, Chairman of the Council of CUM warmly welcomed and greeted Prof. Alan Hudson, Director of Programmes in Leadership and Public Policy, at the University of Oxford, as well as introduced the development of CUM. Mr Chan also expressed his gratitude to Prof. Hudson for joining the University as visiting professor.
University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, comprised of 39 colleges. Throughout the history, 26 British Prime Ministers; at least 30 international leaders; and 50 Nobel Prize Winners have been educated at Oxford University.
Prof. Hudson is the Director of Programmes in Leadership and Public Policy, at the University of Oxford, over 4,000 leading Chinese officials, entrepreneurs and leading academics have benefited from Oxford training which Prof. Hudson has designed and led. In the autumn of 2010, Prof. Hudson was a visiting professor at the Shanghai Administrative Institute where he undertook a research project looking at the impact of Expo 2010 on urbanisation and city life in Shanghai. He is now visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Shanghai Business School, and the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Pudong. He is also the director of the Oxford University/CELAP Centre for Urban Centres, the Oxford - HKUST Leadership and Public Policy Series, and is the recipient of the Shanghai Golden Magnolia Award for services to the social and economic development of Shanghai.
