Mr Tam Wing Fan (photo provided by Mrs Tam).
Mrs Tam Wing Fan (left) received the Honorary University Fellowship certificate from the Pro-Chancellor of the University Dr the Honourable Sir David Li Kwok-po on Mr Tam’s behalf.
The University of Hong Kong confers Honorary University Fellowships to distinguished individuals in recognition of their contribution to the University and the society every year. Mr Tam Wing Fan, who made a generous donation in establishing Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, is among the three distinguished individuals to be conferred the Fellowship this year. The Pro-Chancellor of the University Dr the Honourable Sir David Li Kwok-po presided at the presentation ceremony on September 18, 2019. Mrs Tam Wing Fan received the Honorary University Fellowship certificate on Mr Tam’s behalf.
Mr Tam Wing Fan is a distinguished Hong Kong architect and philanthropist. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Hong Kong, and was in the first cohort of students admitted in 1950 into the newly established Department of Architecture, which at the time was part of the Faculty of Engineering.
Mr and Mrs Tam Wing Fan made a generous donation to the Faculty of Engineering in establishing Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, an iconic state-of-the-art facility where students can expand their imagination and realise their ideas, in 2017. While this new iconic landmark is expected to be completed by 2020, Mr and Mrs Tam Wing Fan showed their continuous support to the Faculty by donating another HK$20 million in establishing the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two in July 2019.
Situated at the ground floor of Run Run Shaw Building and adjacent to Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two will be the showcase for the Faculty to demonstrate its research strengths of advanced research projects. It will be a place for interdisciplinary researchers to incubate their impactful research projects that are tackling grand challenges of the world.
A group photo at the presentation ceremony on September 18, 2019.
Mr and Mrs Tam Wing Fan officiated at the Dedication Ceremony of Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing in 2018.