
Before joining the University of Hong Kong, Mathieson was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and a clinical medicine expert. It is reported that the University of Hong Kong spent two years rigorously selecting a new president. Mathieson is the second non-Chinese president in the 41-year history of the University of Hong Kong and the only non-Chinese president among the eight universities funded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.
Professor Paul Y. K. Chiu served as the president of the University of Hong Kong from 2002 for 12 years.





