Board of Directors

Professor Edward K.Y. CHEN
Chairman, HKUSPACE
Distinguished Fellow, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Honorary Professor, The Open University of Hong Kong & Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong


Professor Chen is currently Chairman of HKU SPACE (School of Professional and Continuing Education), Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor of the Open University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong, and independent non-executive director of First Pacific Company, Delta Asia Financial Group, Hang Seng Qianhai Asset Management, and Wharf Holdings. He is the former President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong introducing liberal arts education, and former Chairman of the Consumer Council promoting competition policy in Hong Kong. He also served as a member of the Securities and Futures Commission, a trustee of Lloyd George Asset Management, a director of Asia Satellite Telecommunications, Peoples Telephone Company, and Mass Transit Railway Corporation. He is also a former Member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He served as President of the Qianhai Institute for Innovative Research in Shenzhen (2014 to 2017).

Professor Chen was educated at the University of Hong Kong (BA & MSocSc) and Oxford University (DPhil). He is a pioneer in the study of Asia’s newly industrialized economies, and has particular research interest in regional cooperation and the economics of technological change. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Hong Kong, the Open University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong and Plymouth University in England.

Mr. Benjamin HUNG
Chief Executive Officer for Asia
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

Chief Executive Officer for Asia, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

Mr. Kwok-Chuen KWOK
Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Academy of Finance
Executive Director, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research

Mr. Kwok has been an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong since November 2008 and has been the AsiaGlobal Fellows Program Director of the Asia Global Institute since March 2018.

He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd. (2012 – 2020), the Government Economist of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government (2004 – 2008) and the Regional Chief Economist of Standard Chartered Bank for East Asia (1991 – 2004). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) (2007 – 2014) and a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee (EFAC) Currency Board Sub-Committee (2011 – 2016). He also served as a member of a number of Government boards and committees, and educational institutes.

He was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 1999 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2003 by the HKSAR Government, in recognition of his long and dedicated public service. He also received the “40 Under 40 Distinguished Alumni Award” in 2007 from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong.

Mr Kwok holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master of Social Science degree in Public Administration from the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Pak Wai LIU
Distinguished Research Fellow,
Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance,
Emeritus Professor of Economics,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Professor Richard Y.C. WONG
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Chair of Economics
Director, Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy
Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy The University of Hong Kong

Professor Yue-Chim Richard Wong is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics and Chair of Economics at The University of Hong Kong. He has been active in advancing economic research on policy issues in Hong Kong and China through his work as founding Director (1987-) of both the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research and the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy (1999-). He has served on numerous public bodies and is currently a member of the Hong Kong Government's Economic and Employment Council (2004-), University Grants Committee (1993-), Housing Authority (1998-), Exchange Fund Advisory Committee (1999-).

He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 1999 by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for his contributions in education, housing, industry and technology development.

Ms. Salina YAN

Permanent Secretary for Financial Services
and the Treasury (Financial Services)
Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Ms Salina Yan is the Permanent Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Financial Services) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.  She leads the Financial Services Branch of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau in carrying out policies for developing Hong Kong’s capital market and financial services sector in furthering Hong Kong’s status as an international financial centre.

Ms Yan was Director-General of Trade and Industry between 2016 and mid-2020 when she headed the Trade and Industry Department in implementing trade policies and trade agreements, and supporting Hong Kong’s small and medium enterprises.

She also has extensive experience covering a wide range of public policy portfolios, including arts and culture and welfare policies.  From 2006 to 2009, she was Deputy Representative of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office based in Geneva which represents Hong Kong, China as a member of the World Trade Organisation.