President-Designate Hamilton Visits NYU Shanghai

NYU’s President-Designate, Andrew Hamilton, visited NYU Shanghai this week as part of a sequence of visits to meet his new colleagues at NYU’s degree granting campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi.  

Over the course of two densely scheduled days, President Hamilton met with faculty and administrative staff and had a series of meetings with key partners in the development of NYU Shanghai: East China Normal University, the city of Shanghai and the district of Pudong. During his meeting with Shanghai's mayor Yang Xiong, both parties expressed their satisfaction with the way the school has developed during its first three years of activity.

President Hamilton was especially eager to spend time with NYU Shanghai students during his whirlwind visit. He participated in a class on comparative politics, and he joined in the school's popular annual Dumpling Festival. He also made time to open the First Annual Conference on Economic Liberalization of Emerging Markets at the Volatility Institute of NYU Shanghai, sharing the stage with Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle.

"I am honored to have been selected as New York University’s new president, and I very much enjoyed my first visit to the remarkable NYU Shanghai community,” remarked Dr. Hamilton. “The intersection between China and the rest of the world will be a defining force in the twenty-first century, and I am thrilled to see with my own eyes how NYU has created a new kind of university to capture the new intellectual opportunities that this development presents."