Edward K.Y. Chen

Age 74, educated at the University of Hong Kong and Oxford University, Professor Chen is an Independent Non-executive Director of Wharf Holdings Limited. He has served as President of Lingnan University; Professor and Director of the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong; Chairman of Hong Kong’s Consumer Council; as an Executive Councillor of the Hong Kong Government; and as a Legislative Councillor. He is now the Chairman of the HKU SPACE Board of Directors, a Board Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, a Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Professor of the Open University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen joined First Pacific’s Board in 1993.