University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong was founded in 1911. Governor Sir Frederick Lugard had proposed to establish a university in Hong Kong to compete with the other Great Powers opening universities in China, most notably Prussia, which had just opened the Tongji German Medical School in Shanghai.
Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody, an Indian businessman in Hong Kong, learned of Lugard's plan and pledged to donate HK$150,000 towards the construction and HK$30,000 towards other costs. The Hong Kong Government and the business sector in southern China, which were both equally eager to learn "secrets of the West's success" (referring to technological advances made since the Industrial Revolution), also gave their support. The Government contributed a site at West Point. Swire Group contributed £40,000 to endow a chair in Engineering, in addition to thousands of dollars in equipment (its aim was partly to bolster its corporate image following the death of a passenger on board one of its ships, "Fatshan", and the subsequent unrest stirred by the Self-Government Society). Along with donations from other donors including the British Government and companies such as HSBC, Lugard finally had enough to fund the building of the university.
HKMA David Li Kwok Po College
Established in 1960, the Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) is a non-profit making organisation whose core activity is professional education. The HKMA has been in service in Hong Kong for 50 years. With a membership of more than 13,000 executives, HKMA organises more than 2,000 programmes for more than 50,000 participants annually. Apart from adult education, the HKMA is also concerned with educating Hong Kong's younger population. HKMA David Li Kwok Po College opened in 2000, the second school founded and administered by the HKMA. Dr the Hon David K. P. Li GBM GBS JP, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia Limited, is the past Chairman of the HKMA.