Timothy Tong Wai Cheung

PhD, FASME, FHKEng, JP, aged 69, has been appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director since 2019. Prof Tong is also Non-Executive Independent Director of GP Industries Limited. He has over 30 years of teaching, research and administrative experience in universities in the US and Hong Kong. Prior to serving as president of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2009 to 2018, he was the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University, US. Being an expert in the field of heat transfer, Prof Tong is dedicated to addressing issues concerning energy use and sustainable development. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and the International Thermal Conductivity Conference. Prof Tong’s public engagement includes being chairman of the Council of Hong Kong Laureate Forum, members of the InnoHK Steering Committee and Global STEM Professorship Scheme Assessment Panel for the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the HKSAR. Additionally, he has been appointed member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference since 2013. He is also the chief executive officer of AMTD Foundation and chairman of AMTD Digital Inc. The former is a charity organization set up to assist AMTD Group in fulfilling its corporate social responsibility. Prof Tong is currently a non-executive director of Freetech Road Recycling Technology (Holdings) Limited and an independent non-executive director of Xiaomi Corporation, Gravitation Fintech HK Limited and Airstar Bank Limited. Prof Tong holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University, US, and holds a Master’s and a Doctoral degrees in the same discipline from the University of California, Berkeley, US.