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Daniel Kung-Chuen Shao, AB ’72, HON ’98
In Hong Kong, Shao is executive director of Van Yu Trading Co. Ltd. and has been executive director of more than 20 companies in various countries. He was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1999 and a citation from the Ohio Senate in 1998. Shao is a director of the Institute of Chinese Medicine of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Chinese Medicine Limited. He is a member of the Committee on Trade Development and the Hong Kong/Japan Business Cooperation Committee for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. He serves on the Trade & Industry Advisory Board for the Trade & Industry Department of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In the area of higher education, he is honorary consultant to the Peking University Heath Science Center in China; has been adviser to the School of Continuing Learning Programme and chairman of the China Studies Programme of Baptist University in Hong Kong; and is a member of the advisory board for the School of Continuing Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also is an honorary director for the State of Ohio in East and Southeast Asia Office, which he helped establish. He received a diploma in economics from Polytechnic in Oxford, England. He chairs the China Studies Advisory Committee and is a member of the Education Committee for Hong Kong Baptist College. He also is a member of Delta Sigma Pi, from which he has received a Certificate of Appreciation, an Outstanding Alumnus Award and a Silver Helmet Award for 25 years of outstanding service. He and his wife, Margaret Pui-Yee Chan, have two sons and a daughter. |
Daniel Shao has been an Ohio University Foundation Board trustee since 1995 and is an international consultant for the Bicentennial Campaign. He has been president of the Hong Kong chapter of the Ohio University Alumni Association since 1984. He has directed gifts to the University’s libraries, the Daniel K.C. Shao Internship and Study Abroad programs, the Scott & Fetzer Entrepreneurial Program and other areas. His Ohio University honors include the Ohio University Alumni Association Medal of Merit, an Award for Achievement in Business from the College of Business and an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. Shao also is coordinator of the Ohio University/Hong Kong Baptist College program.