Mervyn Robert John Jacob

Mervyn has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 1989. He joined Price Waterhouse in Dublin in 1982 and has worked with the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) network for his entire career. He retired from PwC Hong Kong in June 2020 after 25 years as a partner of the firm.

During his career, he worked with a broad range of clients in different industries in Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong he had responsibility for some of the firm’s largest clients in the region and has delivered various services including audit, due diligence, risk management and regulatory compliance reviews. He specialised in the financial services industry in Hong Kong and held various roles within PwC, including Financial Services Leader of the Hong Kong and mainland China firm for seven years, and was a member of the PwC Global Financial Services Executive.