Autumn Issue, 2017

The Other Hundred Yuxin Hou 侯昱鑫 (BBA(IBGM) 2009) International Business and Global Management graduate Yuxin Hou has a career that truly involves global management and not only that, it challenges the norm. He is the Manager of China Business at The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), a Hong Kong-based independent think tank, and the Project Manager of “The Other Hundred” – an international photography competition and photobook project that showcases 100 worldwide photo- stories, each moving beyond stereotypes and introducing readers to the vast majority of people and cultures overlooked by the mainstream media. “The best 100 of this, the top 20 of that… there are so many lists about success and material wealth in the world that give us an illusion that these are the benchmarks or goals we should aim for. So, during a brainstorming session in our office, we asked ourselves, ‘why don’t we make our own list that turns the overlooked into another hundred?’”. Yuxin and the project team started by first inviting photojournalists from around the globe to submit photo-stories, and later formed a world-class judging panel to select 100 photo-stories that were able to “move beyond the stereotypes and clichés that fill so much of the world’s media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as noteworthy as any member of the world’s richest 1,000”. In 2013, “The Other Hundred – 100 Faces, Places and Stories” was published. Subsequently, “The Other Hundred” with the themes “Entrepreneurs” and “Educators”, were published in 2015 and 2017 respectively. “The Other Hundred” is an initiative of GIFT. Yuxin’s first encounter with GIFT was when he was studying at HKU. “I was lucky enough to receive the sponsorship to participate in the Global Leadership Programme (GLP) organised by GIFT, which mainly targets executives!” Through GLP, Yuxin spent two weeks in India in 2009. “ The best 100 of this, the top 20 of that… there are so many lists about success and material wealth in the world …why don’t we make our own list that turns the overlooked into another hundred? ” 64 Class Notes