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Annual Report 2021 Contents 9 APRU Members 22 Annual Presidents’ Meeting 2020 1 10 APRU Presidents 23 Senior International Leaders’ Working Together 12 From the Chair Meeting 2020 13 From the Secretary General 24 APRU Launches International 14 APRU Leaders University Centre and Satellite 17 New Members Office 18 Senior International Leaders 25 APRU in the Media 20 APRU Partners 28 Contributing to the Sustainable 48 Empowering Students with Esports 2 Development Goals Fellowship and Apprenticeship Actions and Impact 50 Student Competitions Enhancing 2.1 Learning COVID-19 Response and Management 2.4 32 APRU Online Conferences Offer a Empowering Higher New Realm of Possibility Education Leaders 34 APRU Plus Supports Members 52 Asia Pacific Women in Leadership During Pandemic Challenges Mentoring Program Pilot 35 APRU COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis 54 Asia-Pacific Mayors Academy for Management Initiative Sustainable Urban Development 56 Online Courses Offer Tools to 2.2 Enrich Student Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship 58 New Program Director for APRU for Positive Change Population Aging Program 38 Successful Conclusion of the AI For 59 APRU Extends Partnership with Social Good Project Times Higher Education 40 APRU Launches its First Global Inter-University Esports 2.5 Conference Sustainability for a Socially 42 APEC, APRU, and DiDi Further Responsible World Public–Private Partnerships 62 Architecture and Urban Design for Disaster Risk Reduction and 2.3 Resilience Student Learning, Creativity, 63 Multi-Hazards Program: Taking an and Knowledge Exchange All-Hazards Approach 44 Virtual Student Exchange Program 64 Sustainable Waste Management 46 Quarantunes Brings Notes of Program Continues Impact Positivity During the Pandemic 65 Solve Climate By 2030 68 APRU Strategic Plan Programs At-A-Glance 3 69 Mini Certificate in Health Research 75 APRU Sustainable Cities and Future Initiatives Ethics Landscapes Program 70 APRU Student Global Climate 76 APRU Sustainable Waste Change Simulation 2021 Management Program 71 APRU Global Sustainability Course 77 APRU Multi-Hazards Program 72 Routledge Handbook of Sustainable 78 APRU Population Aging Program Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific 79 APRU Asia Pacific Women in Rim Leadership Program 73 APRU Indigenous Knowledges 80 APRU Global Health Program Working Group 81 APRU Esports Initiative 82 APRU International Secretariat 83 Contact Us Working Together 1 5 APRU Members APRU membership is comprised of leading universities from 19 economies of the Pacific Rim known worldwide for their academic and research excellence. 9 CANADA RUSSIA ❼ Simon Fraser University ㊺ Far Eastern Federal University ❽ The University of British Columbia ❽❼ CHINA AND HONG KONG SAR KOREA ❿ Fudan University ⓫ ⓫ Harbin Institute of Technology ㊱ KAIST ⓬ Nanjing University ㊲ Korea University ㊺ ⓭ Peking University ㊳ POSTECH ⓮ Shanghai Jiao Tong University ㉑ ㊴ Seoul National University ⓯ Sun Yat-sen University ⓭⓴ ㊵ Yonsei University The Chinese University of Hong Kong NORTH ⓰ ㊲ ㉞ ㊵㊴ ㊿ ⓱ The Hong Kong University of Science and ATLANTIC Technology ㊱ ㊳ ㉟ JAPAN OCEAN ㉜ ㉚ NORTH The University of Hong Kong ㉝ ㊾ ⓲ ㉓ ㉚ Keio University PACIFIC ㉛ ⓳ Tongji University ㉛ Kyushu University ⓬ ❿ OCEAN ⓴ Tsinghua University ㉒ ⓳ USA ㉔ ⓮ ㉜ Nagoya University University of Chinese Academy of Sciences ㉑ ㉝ Osaka University ㊾ California Institute of Technology ㉒ University of Science and Technology of China ㉞ Tohoku University ㊿ University of California, Berkeley MEXICO ㉓ Xi’an Jiaotong University ㉟ Waseda University University of California, Davis ㊷ Zhejiang University ㉕ ㊷ Tecnológico de Monterrey ㉔ ㉖ University of California, Los Angeles ⓯ CHINESE TAIPEI ⓰ University of California, Riverside ⓲⓱ ㉕ National Taiwan University University of California, San Diego ㉖ National Tsing Hua University University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of Hawai’i at Mānoa PHILIPPINES THAILAND ㊹ University of Oregon ㊽ ㊹ University of the Philippines University of Southern California Chulalongkorn University ㊽ University of Washington COLOMBIA MALAYSIA ㉗ ㉗ Universidad de los Andes, Colombia ㊶ Universiti Malaya ㊶ ㊻ ㊼ SINGAPORE ㊻ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ㉘ ㊼ National University of Singapore ECUADOR ㉘ Universidad San Francisco de Quito INDONESIA ㉙ ㉙ Universitas Indonesia SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN AUSTRALIA ❹ CHILE ❶ Monash University ❾ University of Chile ❷ The Australian National University ❾ ❸ The University of Melbourne ❺ ❹ The University of Queensland ❻ ❺ The University of Sydney ❷ ㊸ ❻ UNSW Sydney NEW ZEALAND ❸ ❶ ㊸ The University of Auckland SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 6 7 Section 1 APRU Presidents Working Together (as of June 30, 2021) AUSTRALIA CHINA AND HONG KONG SAR BAO Xinhe President Margaret GARDNER AC XU Ningsheng University of Science and Technology President and Vice-Chancellor President of China Monash University Fudan University WANG Shuguo Brian P. SCHMIDT AC ZHOU Yu President Vice-Chancellor President Xi’an Jiaotong University The Australian National University Harbin Institute of Technology WU Zhaohui Duncan MASKELL LYU Jian President Vice-Chancellor President Zhejiang University The University of Melbourne Nanjing University CHINESE TAIPEI Deborah TERRY AO HAO Ping Vice-Chancellor and President President Chung-Ming KUAN The University of Queensland Peking University President National Taiwan University Mark SCOTT AO LIN Zhongqin (will assume duty on July 19, 2021) President Hong HOCHENG Vice-Chancellor and Principal Shanghai Jiao Tong University President The University of Sydney National Tsing Hua University LUO Jun Ian JACOBS President COLOMBIA President and Vice-Chancellor Sun Yat-sen University UNSW Sydney Alejandro GAVIRIA URIBE Rocky S. TUAN President CANADA Vice-Chancellor and President Universidad de los Andes, Colombia The Chinese University of Hong Kong Joy JOHNSON ECUADOR President and Vice-Chancellor Wei SHYY Simon Fraser University President Diego QUIROGA The Hong Kong University of Science Rector Santa J. ONO and Technology Universidad San Francisco de Quito President and Vice-Chancellor The University of British Columbia Xiang ZHANG INDONESIA President and Vice-Chancellor CHILE The University of Hong Kong Ari KUNCORO Rector Ennio V. VIVALDI CHEN Jie Universitas Indonesia Rector President University of Chile Tongji University JAPAN QIU Yong Kohei ITOH President President Tsinghua University Keio University LI Shushen Tatsuro ISHIBASHI President President University of Chinese Academy of Kyushu University Sciences Seiichi MATSUO President Nagoya University 10 For more information, visit: apru.org/members Shojiro NISHIO PHILIPPINES Henry T. YANG President Chancellor Osaka University Danilo L. CONCEPCION University of California, Santa Barbara President Hideo OHNO University of the Philippines Cynthia K. LARIVE President Chancellor Tohoku University RUSSIA University of California, Santa Cruz Aiji TANAKA Nikita Yu. ANISIMOV David LASSNER President President President Waseda University Far Eastern Federal University University of Hawai’i at Mānoa KOREA SINGAPORE Michael H. SCHILL President Kwang Hyung LEE Subra SURESH University of Oregon President President KAIST Nanyang Technological University, Carol L. FOLT Singapore President Jin Taek CHUNG University of Southern California President TAN Eng Chye Korea University President Ana Mari CAUCE National University of Singapore President Moo Hwan KIM University of Washington President THAILAND POSTECH Bundhit EUA-ARPORN Se-Jung OH President President Chulalongkorn University Seoul National University USA Seoung Hwan SUH President Thomas F. ROSENBAUM Yonsei University President California Institute of Technology MALAYSIA Carol T. CHRIST Dato’ Mohd Hamdi Abd SHUKOR Chancellor Vice-Chancellor University of California, Berkeley Universiti Malaya Gary S. MAY MEXICO Chancellor University of California, Davis David GARZA President Gene D. BLOCK Tecnológico de Monterrey Chancellor University of California, Los Angeles NEW ZEALAND Kim A. WILCOX Dawn FRESHWATER Chancellor Vice-Chancellor University of California, Riverside The University of Auckland Pradeep K. KHOSLA Chancellor University of California, San Diego 11 Section 1 From Working Together the Chair Dear APRU Members: I am pleased to share this report Earlier this year, we established the detailing our considerable APRU International University Centre achievements together over the past based at Cyberport in Hong Kong, year. Despite the pandemic and the which is the new location of the APRU cessation of most international travel, International Secretariat. A satellite APRU members remained extremely office also recently opened at the Hong engaged, continuing to innovate and Kong Science and Technology Park. collaborate for the benefit of the When international travel resumes, Pacific Rim region. members will be able to make use of these facilities. I thank President Wei The APRU has been very active in Shyy of The Hong Kong University of connecting us across the region, Science and Technology for hosting enabling us to share our campuses the secretariat during APRU’s first five and regional experiences, learn from years in Hong Kong. one another, and face the future with greater confidence. APRU presidents As the world continues to grapple have embraced opportunities to with the COVID-19 pandemic, we interact remotely and lead initiatives, unfortunately will not be able to meet ranging from setting international in person for the Annual Presidents’ higher education

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