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First president of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute Prof Datuk Dr Woo Wing Thye.

PROF Datuk Dr Woo Wing Thye (pic) has been appointed the first president of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute (JCI) in Southeast Asia as of January this year.

The announcement was made following the setting up of the institute as a component of the Sunway Education Group after the creation of two Jeffrey Cheah Professorships of Southeast Asia studies at Harvard University in 2013.

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