Gordon Redding (born 30 May 1937), MA (Cambridge, PhD (Manchester), D.Econ h.c. (Stockholm SSE), is a British professor, academic, author, editor, and consultant. He is today a specialist on China and the regional ethnic Chinese, and also works on the comparison of different systems of capitalism, and on the role of education in societal development.His core interest is in the role of culture in the shaping of societal progress. He has published 15 books and 100 articles related to these subjects. He retains a number of professorships, and is currently working as a senior advisor to the HEAD Foundation (Human Capital and Education for Asian Development), based in Singapore. This is a non-profit foundation which he was invited by regional philanthropists to establish in 2010, and initially directed to 2014. He also spent 24 years at the University of Hong Kong, where he founded and directed the HKU Business School (now the Faculty of Business and Economics). He was also for ten years a Director of the Wharton International Forum, working globally in executive education. Now living in London he was from 2013 to 2015 a Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Institute of Education, UCL.
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30 May 1937 (age 88) Bootle, Lancashire, England
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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