Alumni profile 

Kiki Ko 
Manager, Development and Alumni Affairs Office 
The University of Hong Kong 

Qualifications: 
Bachelor of Science, UNSW, 1989
MBA, University of South Australia, 1997

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Cartoonist

First full time job
Education Counsellor

Current job description
Plan and co-ordinate programmes and functions for alumni affairs and development purposes, including facilitation of a mentoring programme.

Your strengths
People skills, presentation and events organization.

Your weaknesses
Too much of a softie as a manager or a leader

Best part of the job?
I get to meet with different people.

Strangest thing you had to do?
Too many, can't remember, perhaps at our next event. (We do all sorts of odd things all the time)

Mentor or greatest inspiration?
Professor Victor Yu, a Professor of Neonatalogy who is also a church minister.

Career ethic?
One has to be responsible for one's deed and try to do things which are constructive.

Where will you be in 10-15 years?
Back in Sydney, I hope.

Job you most covet?
I love the kind of job that I am doing, but would also enjoy jobs with a counseling aspect.