Honorary University Fellows
Ms Beatrice Mok founded and manages her own real estate portfolio and property management firm in Hong Kong. She holds a BSc in Mathematics from London University, a MSc from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard University.
In 2012, she founded the Community Partner Foundation, a charitable foundation that aims to support initiatives extending care to and lifting the spirits of those facing life’s difficult challenges. In its short history, her Foundation has supported some thirty community projects, including mental health programmes for youth and suicide prevention services.
There are two individuals whom Ms Mok credits as her principal sources of inspiration – her late father Dr Mok Hing-Yiu, a renowned physician of internal medicine, and her late husband, Mr Danny D B Ho, both past Presidents of the HKU Alumni Association. Ms Mok has continued their spirit of benefaction, and in 2012 established the Danny D B Ho Professorship in Family Medicine to enhance medical research and primary patient care. As a believer of behavioural health for social well-being, she funded the Danny D B Ho Lecture and Workshop Series in Holistic Therapy at the HKU Centre on Behavioural Health.
To enrich the quality of residential life at St John’s College where her husband had made many lifelong friends, she also supported the renovation of the dining hall of St John’s College, now renamed Danny Ho Bradbury Hall.
Ms Mok is a member of the University’s Court and an Honorary President of the HKU Foundation.
Citation delivered by Professor John BURNS, Dean of Social Sciences
Ms Beatrice Mok founded and manages her own real estate portfolio and property management firm in Hong Kong.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from London University, a Master of Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard University.
Ms Mok is a member of the University’s Court and an Honorary President of the HKU Foundation.
Ms Mok comes from a family with lifelong ties to this University, and with philanthropy for those in need in society.
There are two individuals whom Ms Mok credits as her principal sources of inspiration – her late father Dr Mok Hing-Yiu, a renowned physician of internal medicine, and her late husband, Mr Danny Ho Ding Bong, both past Presidents of the HKU Alumni Association.
She and the family have long recognised the important role of family doctors as our first point of contact in our everyday life. More specifically, Family Medicine is the one specialty that fosters a long-term relationship between patient and doctor, and one field that cares not only for the patient but for an entire family.
Ms Mok has continued their spirit of benefaction, and in 2012 established the Danny D B Ho Professorship in Family Medicine to enhance medical research and primary patient care.
In the same year, she founded the Community Partner Foundation, a charitable foundation that aims to support initiatives extending care to and lifting the spirits of those facing life’s difficult challenges.
In a short space of time, the Foundation has already supported some 30 community projects, including mental health programmes for youth and suicide prevention services.
As a believer in behavioural health for social well-being, Ms Mok helped found the Danny D B Ho Lecture and Workshop Series in Holistic Therapy at the Centre on Behavioural Health of the University of Hong Kong.
We are heartened to see that she has taken an active interest in the therapy workshops. Ms Mok is very engaged and hands-on, and has a level of intellectual curiosity that would rival any academic!
To enrich the quality of residential life at St John’s College where Danny Ho, also a St Johnian, had made many lifelong friends, she supported the renovation of the dining hall of St John’s College, now renamed the Danny Ho Bradbury Hall.
It gives me great pleasure, Mr President, to present Ms Beatrice Mok for the Honorary University Fellowship, in recognition of her contributions to Hong Kong and academia.