Dr. Daniel Chi-Wai Tse, Chair of the University Council of the University of Macau, is conferred an honorary doctoral degree by the Open University of Hong Kong, recognizing his outstanding contributions to Hong Kong’s higher education and social welfare in the past years. The conferment ceremony will be held on 12 December.
Dr. Tse has a close relationship with higher education in Hong Kong. He was born in Macao and studied in the United States. In 1968, he was invited back to teach at the Hong Kong Baptist College, and elected President of the college three years later. Under his leadership, the College was granted full university status. After his retirement in 2001, he was invited by the Chief Executive of the Macao SAR to return to Macao, serving as Chair of the University Council of the University of Macau and Director of the Research Centre for Sustainable Development Strategies (a unit of the Macao SAR Government).
During his time in Hong Kong, Dr. Tse spared no efforts to social and international services in addition to his work in higher education. He was a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the British Hong Kong Government. During the transition period leading to the return of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), he was appointed an Advisor to the PRC on Hong Kong Affairs, a member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee, and a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the National People’s Congress. Throughout his long career, both before and after Hong Kong’s return to China, he served as Chair of many important government committees such as the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong, the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education, the Advisory Council on Food and Environmental Hygiene, the Bilingual Law Advisory Committee and the ICAC Advisory Committee on Corruption. During the period from 1998 to 2008, Dr. Tse has served as a member of the Ninth and Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Due to his distinguished contributions to higher education and his committed public services to Hong Kong in the past 30 years, Dr. Tse was successively appointed Justice of the Peace, the O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellence Order of the British Empire), the C.B.E. (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), and the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) of the Hong Kong SAR. Dr. Tse was also awarded eight honorary doctoral degrees and three honorary professorships from various universities in Europe, the US, Australia and Asia.
