Edith Shih

Director & Secretary at Chi-Med

Ms. Shih has been a Non-executive Director and Company Secretary of the Company since 2006 and company secretary of Group companies since 2000. She was a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company from April 2019 to December 2020. She is also the executive director and company secretary of CKHH. She has been with the Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited (“CKH”) group since 1989 and with HWL from 1991 to 2015. Both CKH and HWL became wholly-owned subsidiaries of CKHH in 2015. She has acted in various capacities within the HWL group, including head group general counsel and company secretary of HWL as well as director and company secretary of HWL subsidiaries and associated companies. Ms. Shih is in addition a non-executive director of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited as well as Hutchison Port Holdings Management Pte. Limited as the trustee-manager of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust and a member of the Board of Commissioners of PT Duta Intidaya Tbk. The aforementioned companies are either subsidiaries or associated companies of CKHH of which Ms. Shih has oversight.

She has over 35 years of experience in legal, regulatory, corporate finance, compliance, and corporate governance fields. She is the immediate past International President and current member of the Executive Committee of The Chartered Governance Institute (“CGI”) as well as a past President and the current chairperson or member of various committees and panels of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (“HKICS”). She is also chairman of the Process Review Panel for the Financial Reporting Council, a panel member of the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal, and the immediate past chairman of the Governance Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Timeline

  • Director & Secretary

    Current role