Miss Pauline Chan Chiu Kam is a well-known industrialist who has made many contributions to the expansion and diversification of industry in Hong Kong since the end of the Second World War.
She is Managing Director of the Haking Group of Companies and has served on a number of Government and Statutory advisory bodies, including the Trade and Industry Advisory Board, the Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation Advisory Board, the Panel of the Board of Review, the Rent Tribunal Panel, the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee on Environmental Pollution, etc. She is a Council member of the Trade Development Council and was recently appointed to serve on the Council of the University of Hong Kong.
Miss Chan is one of the University's own graduates and has maintained an active interest in higher education both locally and in the United Kingdom. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Hong Kong Polytechnic, and the University itself have benefited from her generous donations. The Pauline Chan Building of the University was named after her in 1980 in recognition of her support. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
She was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1972 and appointed as an Unofficial Justice of the Peace in 1976.
In recognition of her contributions to industry in Hong Kong, the University has resolved to confer upon her the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa.
