City University Of Hong Kong Names Ehrlich Honorary Professor

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., of Eggertsville, chair and Leading Professor in the Department of Economics at UB, has been appointed an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong by a vote of that university's faculty senate and approval by the university president.

Ehrlich, who is widely recognized as one of the most eminent and widely cited economists in the U.S., is also Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise in the UB School of Management, where he directs the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems.

He has been a member of the board of advisors to the Hong Kong Center of Economic Research at Hong Kong University since 1992, and from 1992-94 was visiting professor and manager of "The Economics of Transition" project at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

During this period, Ehrlich also served as a member of the Hong Kong government's Health Services Committee and of the committee's Expert Subcommittee on Government Grants and Awards.