Honorary degrees conferred to former President Clinton and Dr. David Ho
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang confers the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Dr. Bill Clinton. |
On December 4, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, who is also the Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), officiated at the university’s179th Congregation, where the university conferred honorary doctoral degrees to two prominent individuals: the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and Dr. David Ho, scientific director and CEO of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and Irene Diamond Professor and Physician at the Rockefeller University in New York. The honorary degrees were given in recognition of the recipients’ shared commitment to humanitarian causes and global leadership in HIV/AIDS research and advocacy.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang confers the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Dr. David Ho. |
President Clinton was in Hong Kong earlier for the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Asia meeting, held December 2-3. Hong Kong was the first city outside of the U.S. to stage a CGI congress and the Asia meeting was the first in a series of CGI meetings to take place in different regions of the world. The CGI was established in 2005 as a project of the non-partisan William J. Clinton Foundation. The CGI convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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