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Honorary University Fellows

Ir Dr Joseph CHOW Ming Kuen
2013 Honorary University Fellow
Ir Dr Joseph CHOW Ming Kuen
Biography

Ir Dr Joseph CHOW Ming Kuen is a civil and structural engineer by profession.  

He holds a BSc (Eng) (1964) from HKU and has spent almost 50 years in the design, construction and management of many major local and international infrastructural and building projects. He founded JMK Consulting Engineers in 1992 and remains its Independent Non-Executive Chairman.

As a student, Dr Chow was elected Chairman of the HKU Engineering Society and organised its Golden Anniversary Celebrations in 1962 – a role he would reprise for the Faculty’s Centenary Celebrations in 2012. He is the Founding President of the HKU Engineering Alumni Association and has served the University, inter alia, as a Court Member, Founding Senior Member of the HKU Foundation, and an HKU Mentor to its students. 

Dr Chow has been the President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and Chairman of the Hong Kong Engineers Registration Board and the Hong Kong Construction Workers Registration Authority. 

Dr Chow has been Chairman of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority and of the Governing Committee of the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital.  He has also served, inter alia, as a member of the Housing Authority, Hospital Authority, Chinese Medicine Council and Education Commission. He has been the Deputy Chairman of Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in 1999. He is also an Honorary Senior Superintendent of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force.


Dr Chow was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1992 and awarded an OBE in 1997.

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