Dong Pan is currently a product manager at SAP Vancouver, the largest software company in Metro Vancouver and one of the world’s leading providers of business software.
He joined SAP in 2004, and has worked in multiple roles and various countries in the world since then.
Pan was a former engineer at Microsoft prior to his career at SAP and holds both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dong actively participates in the local community with a special focus in economy and public education, and he recently presented a petition at the Richmond Board of Education with 6,000 signatures.
Question: If you were premier for a day, what two pieces of legislation would you enact?:
I would enact a knowledge-based economy strategy act, to transform B.C.’s economy from natural resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, focusing on high value-added, clean high-tech industries, producing well-paid jobs for all British Columbians.
Secondly, I would enact an education reform act to admit to B.C.’s public education failure, and to fundamentally reform our public education system.
Question: If you had a theme song, what would it be?
You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban.
