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James Christopher "Lugs" Branigan

The Surrey international Institute is an academic partnership between the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics(DUFE) in Dalian, and the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. SII-DUFE is the first joint venture agreement between Surrey and a Chinese university. It offers international study programmes exploiting the expertise of the two universities in subjects aligned with Business Management and Tourism Management. Students from both the UK and China have the opportunity to spend part of their course at both Surrey and DUFE. There arwe currently around 1,500 students studying at SII.

History
The institute was established on August 30, 2007 by order of the Ministry of Education's formal document No. 200769.

The President of DUFE Professor Ai Hongde and the Vice-Chancellor of Surrey Professor Christopher Snowden officially launched the Institute, based on China's Ministry of Education (MOE) approval. Intake started in September 2007 when SII offered three programmes (MSc in International Business Management, MSc in Tourism Management and MSc in Information Systems).

Organization
The nature of Surrey International Institute (SII) is a joint venture agreement between Surrey and DUFE. Governance structure comprises a joint management committee (JMC) that oversees the operation run by its appointed executive group (EG).

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey leads Surrey’s JMC team. A Surrey senior member of staff is appointed by the JMC as the chair of executive Group in charge of the operation of the joint venture.

The Dean of SII is Professor ZHAO Yanzhi, Professor of Finance, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China. Professor Yanzhi Zhao is Professor of Finance at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE), Dalian, China. He has served as Dean of Surrey International Institute and Director of Global Institute of Management and Economics at DUFE. Prior to that, he studied at Dalian University of Technology of Mechanical Engineering and DUFE, completing a PhD in Quantitative Economics at DUFE. In a 2012, presentation for the British Council ,

Mission
SII strives to equip graduates with academic excellence, professional qualities and life skills to bring the graduates at the top of the employability scale. SII is committed to providing programmes which encompass the development of vocationally relevant skills and enables key areas such as project management, analysis and communication to be strengthened, in line with the demands of today's employers. It also offers the professional training year experience to its students, should they transfer to Stag Hill the the University of Surrey campus for their second year of studies.

==SII Facts & Figures ,== • BSc and MSc in Tourism Management, Business Management, Information Management and Information Systems, accredited by AACSB, Dual Degrees awarded by both parties. • The top level in the MoE audit review in China-Foreign Cooperation Running Schools in Year 2011. • The Best Joint Venture in Liaoning Province award by the Liaoning Education Board • 53 full-time academic staff, more than 50 part-time academic staff.