Charles was senior managing partner at Linklaters both in HK and London, after which he sat on the boards of a number of Jardine Matheson companies as well as the HK Association Committee.

Former Director of Matheson & Co Ltd

Formerly based in Hong Kong from 2003 - 2014 where he was Head of the Derivatives practice in the APAC region, Paget specialises in exchange and OTC-traded derivatives and other financial market products.

Andrew Davis was formerly Head of Investment Promotion, UK Office for Invest Hong Kong, the government department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. He InvestHK in 2010 initially as Associate Director-General in the Hong Kong Head Office. He led the Tourism & Hospitality, Creative Industries, Consumer Products, Business & Professional Services and Transport & Industrial sector specialist teams. In mid 2015, he relocated to the UK to lead the UK Team. Prior to joining InvestHK, he worked in both investment promotion and trade development for International Business Wales and its predecessor the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) for more than 13 years in a number of different senior roles, including the Director of Trade & Investment London. He is an Asia-Pacific specialist, having spent much of his career in the region, including over 19 years in Hong Kong. At the WDA, Andrew had a number of roles including Executive Vice President Asia Pacific, Director of Strategic Accounts, and Vice President – ASEAN and Hong Kong. Before joining the WDA in 1996, he worked predominantly in Asia Pacific with a financial services, procurement and consultancy agency, including postings in Papua New Guinea and Malaysia.

Dominic is the head of Mayer Brown’s banking and finance group in Europe and co-leads the global practice, representing financial institutions and companies across a broad spectrum of domestic and international financing transactions.

Fluent Cantonese and Mandarin speaker and HK born, Edith specialises in advising institutional lenders, private banks, non-bank lenders, borrowers and private equity and venture capital firms on a variety of banking and finance transactions.

Currently Standard Chartered's Chief Data Protection Officer, Julia spent over four years of her long career at the bank in Hong Kong.

Susan was formerly a Managing Director at HSBC, heading the Infrastructure, Returns and Regulatory department, Wholesale Credit and Lending Transformation divison, having spent most of her career in HK.

With over 20 years in finance, Susan moved into angel investing and philanthropy, sitting on many high profile boards as a trustee.