This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr Judy Tsui is Senior Advisor of Institute for New Economic Thinking. In her talk, she stressed the importance of allowing our children to make mistakes in the process of learning. Her talk covers her personal experience with setting her children free from the nest and the realization that in order for them to grow and realize their full potential we must allow them to make their own decisions and mistakes.

Presentation Slides is available at http://slidesha.re/1k3gh4g

Dr Tsui is Senior Advisor of Institute for New Economic Thinking (among its Advisory Board members are 6 Nobel Laureates in Economics), Senior Advisor (HK/Greater China) of Female Founders (non-profit global initiative) and Innovation Forum (Student Body of Cambridge University), Chairman of Arbutus Capital Partners Limited and Director of Joy Sprouts, Inc.

Dr Tsui is an Elected Member of the Election Committee for the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government representing the Accounting Functional Constituency (2006 and 2012). She was Vice President (International and Executive Education) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2010-2014) and Chair Professor of Accounting (2002-2014), Dean of Faculty of Business (2002-2010), Director of Graduate School of Business (2003-2011).

She is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and was the first to be awarded a PhD in Accounting in Hong Kong in 1994. Dr Tsui holds positions as Honorary Professor and Visiting Professor at several top universities in the Mainland. She has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA and is currently an Honorary Professor of the University of Warwick in the U.K. She was the first professor in Accounting who was awarded Cheung Kong Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education in the Mainland (2005-2008).

Currently, Dr Tsui serves as a member of the Research Grants Council (2008-2014), and she served as a member of University Grants Committee (2008-2013), both appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government. She has been appointed Member of Nominating Committee of International Federation of Accountants (2012-2015). Dr Tsui has been appointed Board Member of Hospital Authority by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government (2002-2004). She also served as a member of Hospital Governing Committee, Queen Mary Hospital / Tsan Yuk Hospital (2004-2013), and was a member of Hong Kong West Cluster’s Tender Board of the Hospital Authority (2011-2013).

Dr Tsui served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of CLP Holdings Ltd. (2005-2014) and China Vanke Co. Ltd. in the Mainland (2005-2011) and as its Consultant (2011-2013).

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