Professor Chung-Tong Wu BArch Calif MSc Columbia PhD Calif MRAPI, RAIA
Professor Chung-Tong Wu was appointed to the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development and International at the University of Western Sydney in April 2002.
Prior to this Tong Wu was the Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) at the University of New South Wales. A specialist in regional development planning, Professor Wu has extensive research and professional involvement with international planning projects, especially in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. In Australia, he has conducted research on regional development in NSW and Queensland. Professor Wu was a member of the external reference panel for the Brisbane City New Town Plan and a member of the curriculum advisory group on regional development for the Queensland Department of Business, Industry and Regional Development. He is a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Australian Regional and Enterprise Development, a consortium based at Southern Cross University.
Just prior to joining UNSW, he was the Professor of Planning and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology. During 1994, he was the Head of School of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveying at QUT. He was previously a Head of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Sydney where he also held concurrent appointments as the Director of the Planning Research Centre and as the founding Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.
Prior to moving to Australia, he taught at the University of Singapore and the University of Hawaii. He was also a senior fellow at the East West Center. He is on the international editorial board of the Asian Geographer, the Asian Journal of Public Administration, the Australasian Journal of Regional Science, the Asian Urban Design Review and a former member of the international board of the journal Annals of Tourism Research. He is also a regular reviewer for several international journals.
Professor Wu’s current research projects include: a study of cross border development between China and its neighbors, especially the regions between China, Vietnam, N. Korea and Russia. He is also involved in a joint research project funded by the Toyota Foundation on Asian migrants’ views of multiculturalism. Professor Wu has published extensively on aspects of regional development planning and on Asian immigrants in Australia. His other research interest includes the following: impacts of mega project, regional industrial development, export processing zones, international restructuring and high tech industries development and immigration and urban restructuring.
His professional memberships include the Royal Australian Planning Institute, the American Planning Association and the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association.