Mung Chiang moved to Hong Kong from Tianjin at age 11 and attended Queen’s College before pursuing higher education at Stanford University in the US.

Northeastern University has selected current Purdue University President Mung Chiang to become its 18th president on July 1, succeeding interim president Henry Bienen.

Mung Chiang moved to Hong Kong from Tianjin at age 11 and attended Queen’s College before pursuing higher education at Stanford University in the US.

Mung Chiang, an engineer who topped Hong Kong's 1995 public examinations with 10 perfect A grades, has been named president of Northwestern University, becoming the first Asian…