Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren has been Director of the Common Core since June 2014. Focused on building an intersecting series of F2F, hybrid, and online learning platforms for both students and colleagues, he has coordinated efforts to expand the flexibility of course-types, enhance the interactivity of courses large and small, and to support students’ co-curricular projects. The Common Core Team has expanded regional and global partnerships with the invention of GLADE (Global Liberal Arts Design Experiments), the facilitation of CLASS (China Liberal Arts Summer Sessions), and participation in the HKSCC (Hong Kong Sustainable Campus Consortium). Currently, there is a deepening attention to building out student peer-mentors and to expanding interdisciplinary undergraduate research opportunities through initiatives such as Critical Zones: Gender, Cities, and Well-Being (based on three of the UN’s SDGs). An HEA Principal Fellow, he also served as the Team Lead for a UGC and HKU Outstanding Teaching Awards (Team) for Transdisciplinarity-in-Action and is a member of the first cohort of HKTEA (Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance).