Leo Goodstadt
| Leo Goodstadt | |
|---|---|
| Head of Central Policy Unit | |
|
In office 12 April 1989 – 30 June 1997 | |
| Governor |
Sir David Wilson Chris Patten |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Siu |
| Personal details | |
| Education |
Oxon Manchester |
| Occupation | Economist |
Leo Francis Goodstadt, CBE, JP, (Chinese: 顧汝德) is a British economist based in Hong Kong. He had been the first Head of Central Policy Unit from 1989 to 1997.
Education
Goodstadt got a diploma in agricultural economics at University of Oxford and Master in Economics at University of Manchester. He came to Hong Kong in 1962 as a Commonwealth Scholar.
Academic career
In 1964, he was a lecturer in economics in University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was also an honorary lecture in law in the same institution from 1979 to 1985 and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies (1977–98, 2005–11). He is a Honorary Institute Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences since 2011. In 2001, he was named as a Honorary University Fellow of HKU.[1]
He is now an adjunct professor in Business & Administrative Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Reporting career
Goodstadt is an authoritative reporter on Hong Kong affairs. From 1966 to 1976, he was the deputy editor of Far Eastern Economic Review with special coverage on Hong Kong and China. He was also the Editorial Director of Asiabanking (1981–86) and Hong Kong correspondents for Times (1967–73) and Euromoney (1978-88) respectively.
He was a regular contributor to BBC and hosted weekly public affairs programme in ATV, a local television station.
Central Policy Unit
In 1989, Goodstadt was appointed by Governor Sir David Wilson to be the Head of the newly established Central Policy Unit. He provided advice to the Big Three (Governor, Chief Secretary and Financial Secretary) and participated in the drafting of the annual Policy Address.[2] He served until the Handover in 1997.
Works
Books
- Poverty in the Midst of Affluence: How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Prosperity. Hong Kong University Press. 2013.
- Reluctant Regulators: How the West Created and China Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Hong Kong University Press. 2011.
- Profits, Politics and Panics: Hong Kong's Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935-1985. Hong Kong University Press. 2007.
- Uneasy Partners: The Conflict between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2005.
Articles
- "The Hong Kong e-Identity Card: Examining the Reasons for Its Success When Other Cards Continue to Struggle." Information Systems Management 32 (2015): 72–80. (with Regina Connolly and Frank Bannister)
- "Fiscal Freedom and the Making of Hong Kong’s Capitalist Society." China Information 24.3 (2010): 273–94.
- "The Rise and Fall of Social, Economic and Political Reforms in Hong Kong, 1930—1955." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 44 (2004): 57–81.
- "China and the Selection of Hong Kong's Post-Colonial Political Elite." China Quarterly 163 (2000): 721–41.
- "Hong Kong: An Attachment to Democracy." The Round Table 87.348 (1998): 485–503.
- "The Overseas Chinese: A Model of Stability." The Round Table 65.259 (1975): 251–62.
- "Rejected Immigrants-the Chinese Connection." Hong Kong Law Journal 4.3 (1974): 223–41.
References
- ↑ http://www4.hku.hk/honfellows/honorary-university-fellows/mr-leo-goodstadt/
- ↑ Cheung, Anthony B. L. (2004). "Strong Executive, Weak Policy Capacity: The Changing Environment of Policy-making in Hong Kong". Asian Journal of Political Science. 12 (1): 13.