Selection Process – LUI Che Woo Prize

The Selection Panel

The Selection Panel in each Prize category assesses the nominations it has received. To do this it may call upon assistance from experts in the relevant field. Each Selection Panel will recommend a shortlist of nominees to the Prize Recommendation Committee.

Prize Recommendation Committee

The Prize Recommendation Committee will consider the nominations submitted to it by the Selection Panels.

Prize Council

The Prize Council will consider the Prize Recommendation Committee’s recommendations. The decision of the Prize Council will be final and the board of governors of the Prize Company will endorse the Prize Council’s decision.

Prize Selection Panel

The Selection Panel of each Prize Category comprises five internationally renowned academics or experts of that discipline/field. The Selection Panel of each Prize Category is responsible for the assessment of nominations and the submission of the proposal for award of each Prize Category to the Prize Recommendation Committee.

Previous Year’s Selection Panels:

2024 2019 2018 2017 2016

Prize Recommendation Committee

The Prize Recommendation Committee comprises six world renowned academics or top people of different disciplines. It is responsible for reviewing all nominations and making recommendation of the shortlisted candidates to the Prize Council.

Prof Lawrence J. Lau

Chairman,
Prize Recommendation Committee
(effective till Sept 2021); and
Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Prof Sir Colin Lucas,
BBS

Vice-Chancellor Emeritus
University of Oxford

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Dr Mo Yan

Laureate of Nobel Prize in
Literature 2012

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Dr Heather Munroe-blum,
OC, OQ, PhD, FRSC

Chairperson, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB);
and Principal (President) Emerita,
McGill University

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Prof Andrew Yao Chi-chih

Dean, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
Tsinghua University

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Prof Yeh Wen-hsin

Senior Faculty China
Adviser to the Chancellor
University of California, Berkeley

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Prize Council

The Prize Council comprises five international personages and leaders. Dr Lui Che-woo is the Chairman of the Prize Council. It is responsible for the deliberation and approval of the candidates recommended by the Prize Recommendation Committee.