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Provost relishes challenges

When Professor Benjamin Wah accepted the post of provost at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) last year, he knew that preparations for the four-year undergraduate curriculum, starting from 2012, would occupy him.

What he had perhaps not expected was that the sheer scale of planning and administrative duties that inevitably go with revamping courses, hiring faculty, and expanding facilities to accommodate an extra 3,000 students on campus would fill "200 per cent" of most working weeks.

That, though, is something Wah takes in his stride. He relishes the challenge of overseeing the academic side of the university during a period of significant change while, somehow, still managing to supervise postgraduate students and pursue his own research interests in the field of computer science and engineering.

"It is a very important responsibility, but also v