Cheng Yan-Kee

Independent Non-Executive Director at MTR

Mr Cheng has joined the Board since 22 May 2019.

Mr Cheng is a practising civil and structural engineer, and an Authorised Person and a Registered Structural Engineer under the Buildings Ordinance. He is also a Class 1 Registered Structural Engineer in the People’s Republic of China.

Mr Cheng currently is a director of H. K. Cheng & Partners Limited and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Post-service Employment of Civil Servants.

Mr Cheng formerly was an independent non-executive director of K. H. Group Holdings Limited, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and Chairman of both the Council of the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee under the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He was also a member of the Hospital Authority, Town Planning Board and the Hong Kong Housing Authority.

Mr Cheng is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers in the United Kingdom and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in the United States of America and was conferred Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degrees by the Macau University of Science and Technology in 2017 and the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019. Mr Cheng was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star medal in 2015 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2000.

Timeline

  • Independent Non-Executive Director

    Current role