{{short description|American economist}} {{about||the film director|Lawrence Ah Mon|the Hong Kong barrister|Lawrence Lau (barrister)}} {{family name hatnote|[[Liu (surname)|Lau]]|Lawrence Lau|Lau Juen-yee|lang=Hong Kong}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Lawrence Lau |native_name={{nobold|劉遵義}} |native_name_lang=zh |image=劉遵義.jpg |caption=Lau interviewed by the [[China News Service]] in September 2019. |birth_date={{birth date and age|1944|12|12|df=y}} |birth_place=[[Zunyi]], [[Republic of China|China]] |education=[[St. Paul's Co-educational College]] |alma_mater=[[Stanford University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) |office1=Vice Chancellor of the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] |chancellor1=[[Tung Chee-hwa]]<br />Sir [[Donald Tsang]] |term_start1=1 July 2004 |term_end1=30 June 2010 |predecessor1=[[Ambrose King]] |successor1=[[Joseph Sung]] |office=Non-official Member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]] |term_start=21 January 2009 |president=Sir [[Donald Tsang]] |1blankname=Convenor |1namedata=[[Ronald Arculli]] |term_end=30 June 2012 |spouse=Ayesha Abbas Macpherson }} {{Infobox Chinese|order=ts|t=劉遵義|s=刘遵义|j=lau4 zeon1 ji6|p=Liú Zūnyì}} '''Lawrence Lau Juen-yee''', [[Gold Bauhinia Star|GBS]], [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] ({{lang-zh|t=劉遵義}}; born 12 December 1944) is a [[Hong Kong]] economist and the former [[Chancellor]] of the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]]. He was a non-official member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]] from 2009 to 2012. Before joining CUHK he was an economics professor at [[Stanford University]].
==Personal life== Lau was born on 12 December 1944 in [[Zunyi]], [[Guizhou]], Republic of China. His maternal grandfather was famed calligrapher and [[Kuomintang]] leader [[Yu Youren]] of [[Shaanxi]] Province. He received his secondary education from [[St. Paul's Co-educational College]] in Hong Kong, then attended college in the United States. He received a [[B.S.]] in physics and economics with high honors from [[Stanford University]] in 1964 and an [[M.A.]] and a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in economics in 1966 and 1969, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Economics of Stanford University in 1966 and was promoted to Professor of Economics in 1976.
==Academic career== In 1992, Lau was named the first [[Kwoh-Ting Li]] Professor of Economic Development at Stanford University. From 1992 to 1996, he served as a co-director of the [[Asia-Pacific Research Center]] of Stanford University. From 1997 to 1999, he served as the director of the [[Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research]] (SIEPR) of Stanford University. His specialized fields are Economic Development, Economic Growth, and the Economies of East Asia, including [[China]]. He developed one of the first econometric models of China in 1966, and has continued to revise and update his model since then.
Lau has been elected a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]], a member of [[Tau Beta Pi]], a Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]], an Academician of [[Academia Sinica]], a Member of the Conference for Research in Income and Wealth, an Overseas Fellow of [[Churchill College, Cambridge]], England, an Honorary Member of the [[Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]] and an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa, by the [[Hong Kong University of Science and Technology]]. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]]. He is the author or editor of five books and more than one hundred and sixty articles and notes in professional publications.
Lau is active in both academic and professional services. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai; an Honorary Professor of the Institute of Systems Science, [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], [[Jilin University]], [[Nanjing University]], [[Renmin University]], [[Shantou University]], [[Southeast University]], and the School of Economics and Management, [[Tsinghua University]], Beijing; an International Adviser, National Bureau of Statistics, [[People's Republic of China]] and a member of the board of directors of the [[Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange]], Taipei.
He moved back to Hong Kong in 2004 to take up the position of Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edu.sina.com.hk/news/10/4/1/23835/1.html |title=劉遵義 經濟學者掌中大 |work=[[Ming Pao]] |date=2009-01-20 |accessdate=2013-03-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017092811/http://edu.sina.com.hk/news/10/4/1/23835/1.html |archivedate=2013-10-17 }}</ref>
Lau is currently the Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.igef.cuhk.edu.hk/ljl |title=CUHK IGEF - Professor Lawrence J. Lau |website=www.igef.cuhk.edu.hk |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804000323/http://www.igef.cuhk.edu.hk/ljl |archive-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2015, Lau suggested that students who stormed the University of Hong Kong council meeting should be imprisoned.<ref>{{cite news |title=Community & Education Hong Kong Students who stormed HKU meeting should be imprisoned, says former university head |url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/08/03/students-who-stormed-hku-meeting-should-be-imprisoned-says-former-university-head/ |work=Hong Kong Free Press |date=3 August 2015}}</ref>
==2019–20 Hong Kong protests== In 2019, Lau criticised [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests|Hong Kong protests]]. He wrote: "To find a way forward, one must recognise that the current disturbances reflect deep-rooted, but until now largely latent, anger and discontent among lower-income groups in Hong Kong, especially younger people. The discontent and perceived lack of hope provided the environment for domestic and foreign agitators to succeed."<ref>{{cite news |title=Neither violence, nor Beijing, can fix Hong Kong's housing shortage and lack of a social safety net |url=https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3020441/neither-violence-nor-beijing-can-fix-hong-kongs-housing-shortage |work=South China Morning Post |date=30 July 2019}}</ref>
==Other activities== In January 2009, Lau was named a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong by Chief Executive [[Donald Tsang]]. He [[renunciation of United States citizenship|renounced his United States citizenship]] to take up the position.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20090120/news_20090120_55_553752.htm|title=劉遵義放棄美國國籍 對學生批評持開放態度|work=Radio Television Hong Kong|date=2009-01-20|accessdate=2013-03-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017112225/http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20090120/news_20090120_55_553752.htm|archivedate=2013-10-17}}</ref> Later that year, he became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese [[sovereign wealth fund]] [[China Investment Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.china-inv.cn/cicen/governance/management_international.html |title=China Investment Corporation |accessdate=2010-04-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323220717/http://www.china-inv.cn/cicen/governance/management_international.html |archivedate=2010-03-23 }}</ref>
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