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关清平教授于香港出生并接受教育。中学毕业后于美国蒙  大拿州立大学获得计算机科学系学士、硕士及博士学位，八十  年代中在蒙大拿科技大学开展教学事业，并于 1990 年起担任  该校计算机科学系主任，返回香港教学前已达到正教授级别。 关教授于 1998 年加入香港公开大学科技学院领导计算机科学  系和数学系，服务近八年。于 2006 年至 2016 年担任明爱专上  学院校长，明爱专上是一所本科院校。2016 年重返香港公开大  学担任副校长（学术），并于 2019 年担任常务副校长。
Professor Reggie Kwan is currently the Provost of Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Professor Kwan was born and raised in Hong Kong and he received his BS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science and Doctor of Education from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA. Prof. Kwan started his teaching career in Montana in the mid-80’s and reaching the rank of full professor in the late 90’s before returning to Hong Kong. He was also the Chair of Computer Science from 1990 to 1998 at Montana Technological University. He worked for HKMU for almost eight years until 2006, initially led the Computing Team and later also the Mathematics team. He joined Caritas Francis Hsu College as the President and later also became the President of Caritas Bianchi College of Careers in 2007. In 2011, Caritas Francis Hsu College became a degree granting institute and changed its name to Caritas Institute of Higher Education. Professor Kwan returned to HKMU in 2016 as the VP(Academic) and became the Provost in June 2019. Professor Kwan’s academic interest was Data Compression and later he became fascinated by e-learning and open and distance learning after he joined HKMU in the late 90’s . His recent publications are mostly in the area of e-learning.