The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun) Scholarship Established at the Yale School of Management
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2005—Laura Cha,former vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, hascontributed $700,000 to endow The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun) Scholarshipat the Yale School of Management. This merit-based scholarship isintended to provide financial assistance to MBA students from mainlandChina who demonstrate financial need. It will be awarded every otheryear so that one student will get his or her two-year MBA tuition fullycovered by this scholarship.
“We are enormously grateful toMs. Cha for her generosity and her commitment to providing exceptionalstudents from China an opportunity to study at the Yale School ofManagement,” said Anne Coyle, admissions director at Yale SOM. “Thisscholarship enhances our ability to attract China’s best andbrightest—especially those who could not otherwise afford to studyhere. It also serves to further the intellectual exchange between theSchool and China.”
China regularly factors into the researchinterests of faculty and students at Yale SOM. Key programs include theChina Research Initiative at the International Center for Finance,which studies the history and current issues of market development inChina and disseminates ideas for further economic and institutionalreforms, and the Yale China Business Conference that the Greater ChinaStudent Interest Group will hold at Yale SOM in April 2005.
LauraCha, a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Government, wasthe first person to join the Government of the People’s Republic ofChina at the vice-ministerial rank when she was appointed asVice-Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in early2001. She studied in America, receiving her B.A. from the University ofWisconsin and J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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