CCS100 - Key Persons
D. Fast - CEO, President
Born in Shanghai, earned his BA from Nanjing University, MA from Fudan University, and MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Alberta. Over the last forty years Dr. Ouyang taught social, political, moral and legal philosophy at universities in Shanghai, Edmonton, Michigan and Vancouver. He was Vice President responsible for international education and academic program development and now is an Administrative Emeritus at Douglas College. He received many awards from CBIE, CICAN and WFCI and he was the very first recipient of life time achievement in international education created by British Columbia Council of International Education in 2021. He has also Published papers in the areas of philosophy and internationalization.
Stanley Remple, BA (philosophy and psychology), MSW (Social Work), MPH (Health Administration), PhD. (Community Systems Planning and Development), and DMHA (Mental Health Administration). Stanley is a husband (has been married for 59 years), father, and grandfather, and is a now retired after more than 35 years of progressively responsible professional work. He now limits his professional work to board membership, mentoring of business leaders, limited public speaking, some leadership consulting, and guest teaching, Dr. Remple has had a successful and rewarding career as frontline worker, supervisor, middle level leader, executive public service leader (Assistant Deputy Minister and Deputy Minister) in two provinces, business partner (Employability Assessment) and owner (Leadership Consulting), tenured graduate-level professor, graduate leadership program leader, cross-cultural implementer and founder of graduate leadership programs in Kenya and China, and value-based business leadership author. Dr. Remple is a former board member and life-long member of the CCAF, was awarded a Governor General medal for service to Canadians, and has been involved with various non-profit organizations. His extensive education journey has been important, but Stanley's view is that quality work must be the evidence of educational achievements. More of Dr. Remple's time is now spent reading, gardening, golfing, bridge, and travelling internationally with his wife.
Dr. Youngsoo Kim was the Presidential Office Secretary in South Korea. He got his PHD in MIT. He has extensive international experience in many areas and good at many languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese. He is a famous economist in Korea, China.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Full Professor ( Former Vice Rector and Chair Professor
Prof. Yang started his university teaching career in 1984. He was a law school lecture, called to the Bar of Shanghai in 1985, and was Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University in 1986-87 and 1990. In Canada, he is Senior Associate with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR), a Canadian institute affiliated with the United Nations.From 1995 to 2010, he was ICCLR's China Program Directorresponsible for managing and executing CIDA funded major projects to promote UN Rule-of-Law standards and introduce Canadian best practices in criminal justice reforms in China. This major program engaged government departments of justice and law enforcement and leading university scholars and expertsof Canada and China. From 2001 to 2018, Prof. Yang was based in Macau to teach various courses in all four universities in Macau, including law, international relations and public policies. He also taught law and was Supervisor of Doctoral Students in mainland China. He has published extensively on topics of criminal law and criminal justice and is co-editor of over 20 law books.
Job Titles:
- Mayor
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Member of the Prince George Community
- Professional
Mayor Simon Yu has been an active member of the Prince George Community for nearly 50 years.
Mayor Yu's scope of work and community involvement includes:
Mayor Yu is a professional engineer who has taught engineering at College of New Caledonia and he had an active consulting engineering business servicing the Northern B.C. region prior to becoming the Mayor of Prince George.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Vice - Chair of the Canada - China Legislative Association and of the Canada - Japan Inter - Parliamentary Group
Senator Victor Oh was born in Singapore. In 1978, he immigrated to Canada. In the following years, Senator Oh became a successful entrepreneur and an active community leader in the Greater Toronto Area. Much of his volunteer work focused on building bridges of understanding and collaboration across cultures as well as to helping newcomers from all over the world establish themselves and start their own businesses.
Since his appointment to the Senate of Canada in January 2013, Senator Oh has been committed to advancing the interests and rights of vulnerable groups, including seniors, youth and migrants, and to promoting economic growth and job creation for generations to come. He has also been involved in various initiatives that celebrate the rich ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity of Canada.
Today, Senator Oh is the Vice-Chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association and of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group in addition to a member of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas and the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group. He has also held executive positions in a number of parliamentary friendship groups including Canada-Bulgaria, Canada-Indonesia, Canada-Malaysia, Canada-Nordic-Baltic, Canada-Peru and Canada-Singapore.
In 2016, Senator Oh was the head of the Canadian parliamentary delegation at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) held in Vancouver, British Columbia. On this same year, he joined the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund, which provides a platform for parliamentarians from over 140 countries to advocate for increased accountability and transparency in International Financial Institutions and multilateral development financing.
Over the years, Senator Oh has been awarded with several distinctions. He received the Robert Boyne Memorial Award by the Peel Regional Police in 2007 and the prestigious Citation for Citizenship by the Government of Canada in 2008. In 2010, Senator Oh became the first Chinese-Canadian to receive a tribute dinner by the Community Living Foundation of Mississauga in 26 years.
Senator Oh currently resides in Mississauga with his wife, Rosa. He is the proud father of two sons, Daryll and Derek, and a loving grandfather to three grandchildren.
Senator Oh retired in June 2024.
Tung Chan is the immediate past Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and former CEO of SUCCESS. He is an Honorary Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy and was a Councillor and a Deputy Mayor of the City of Vancouver, manager of a Royal Bank branch, Vice President of the TD Bank Group, and District VP of TD Canada Trust where he had operational and strategic responsibilities for two overseas branches (Hong Kong and Taiwan) and 17 domestic branches. Tung Chan has received the Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal and the Diamond Jubilee Medal. A volunteer, philanthropist and community leader, Tung has served on the boards of numerous civic, cultural, business, and educational organizations. He was invested into the Order of BC in 2014.