The Baroness Dunn is an Executive Director of John Swire & Sons Ltd. She is also a non-executive Deputy Chairman of HSBC Holdings Plc., Chairman of the Hong Kong Association, a Director of the Confucius Institute for Business, London and a member of the British Government’s Asia Task Force.

Baroness Dunn was educated at St. Paul’s Convent School in Hong Kong and the University of California, Berkeley, California. She joined the Swire Group in Hong Kong in 1963. She has been a Director of Swire Pacific Ltd. since 1981 and was a Director of Cathay Pacific Airways from 1985 to 1997.

Baroness Dunn was a member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council in 1981-1995, becoming its Senior Member in 1988-1995; a member of Hong Kong’s legislative Council in 1976-1988, becoming its Senior Member in 1985-1988. In her work on these bodies, she advised on the formulation of government policies and participated in the enactment of legislation. She was also Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 1983-1991, the statutory body responsible for the promotion of Hong Kong’s external trade.

Baroness Dunn was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1978, a Commander (C.B.E.) in 1983, and a Dame Commander (D.B.E.) in 1989. She was made a Life Peer in 1990.

Baroness Dunn received a Trade Award from the Prime Minister of Japan in 1987 and the “Peace and Commerce” award from the United States Government in 1988. She was conferred with honorary doctorate degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University, the University of British Columbia, Leeds University, Buckingham University and an Honorary Fellowship from the London Business School.

Adam Keswick is Chairman of Matheson & Co Ltd. He joined the Board in 2007 and was Deputy Managing Director of Jardine Matheson from 2012 to 2016. He was appointed Chairman of Matheson & Co. in August 2016.

He has held a number of executive positions since joining the Group from N M Rothschild & Sons in 2001, including Group Strategy Director and, thereafter, Group Managing Director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage between 2003 and 2007. Mr Keswick is a Director of Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental.

He is also a Director of Ferrari NV and Schindler, Vice Chairman of the supervisory board of Rothschild & Co, and is a Director of Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum.

Mr Keswick attended Eton College and Edinburgh University where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1995.

Peter Burnett is a Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong). He joined the bank in 2013 as the Regional Head, Corporate Finance, Greater China & North Asia and a member of the Executive Committee.

Peter is a Graduate of the University of Oxford (MA) and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW).

In 1995 Peter moved to Hong Kong as Head of UBS ECM in Asia and later as Asia Head of Corporate Finance.

Peter stepped down as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong in September 2022 after four years in post. He is Treasurer of the English Schools Foundation (“ESF”) and a member of the Hong Kong Committee of the ICAEW.

Peter was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Queen’s New Year Honours for services to the British Business Community in Hong Kong.

In July 2022 Peter was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the Hong Kong Government for contributions to the development of the business community in Hong Kong.

Adrian Cartwright is Clifford Chance's Senior Partner and chairs its Partnership Council, providing oversight of, and working closely with, the Executive Leadership Group.

He specialises in equity capital markets including issues of shares and global depositary receipts in the international markets.

Adrian leads the firm's European Equity Capital Markets group.

Sherard has been at HSBC since 2013, working as Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive, and more recently heading the Group’s global government and public affairs functions. He also chairs HSBC Bank Oman. Earlier he spent over 30 years in the British Diplomatic Service, including working on Hong Kong in the three and a half years up to the handover to China in 1997, and finishing his career as Ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia and then Afghanistan.

Sherard is Chair of the China-Britain Business Council, and Chair of the Saudi British Joint Business Council. He is Chairman of the Omani British Business Council; honorary Vice President of the UK Financial Inclusion Commission; an Ambassador for the Money Advice Trust, and for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; a Committee Member of The Hong Kong Association; and a Board Member of Asia House. He is the author of two books: 'Cables from Kabul' and 'Ever the Diplomat'.

Sir Douglas Flint is Chairman of abrdn plc and of IP Group plc. He retired as Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc in September 2017, having served on the Board for 22 years, including fifteen years as HSBC’s Group Finance Director. Between 2005 and 2011 he was also a Non-Executive Director of BP plc.

In December 2017 he was appointed by the Chancellor as Special Envoy to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and serves on the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation.

In June 2006 Douglas was honoured with a CBE and in June 2018 was awarded a Knighthood, both awards in recognition of his services to the finance industry

During his career in the asset management industry John was the Chief Economist of Invesco Ltd, until he retired in December 2021. In that role he had responsibility for providing economic analysis and forecasts to Invesco portfolio managers and clients.

After graduating from Edinburgh University, he studied post-graduate economics at the University of Tokyo in 1970-74 and was also a visiting research fellow at the Bank of Japan in 1974. He joined the investment industry later that year as Chief Economist for GT Management, based initially in Hong Kong and then in San Francisco.

As editor of Asian Monetary Monitor in 1983, he proposed a currency board scheme for stabilising the Hong Kong dollar that is still in operation today. In the 1990s John was a director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Clearing Corporation, a council member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, and an economic adviser to the Hong Kong Government.

In 1998, John joined Invesco and became a member of the Committee on Currency Board Operations of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He is also a member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee in England while simultaneously serving on the board of the Hong Kong Association.

In October 2020 John was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR government for his work in promoting the stability of the Hong Kong dollar. In the same month he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.

John holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary PhD, also from the University of Edinburgh. He has been a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Applied Economics since June 2016.

Ms Joey Ko is the Director, UK, Nordics & Ireland at Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the statutory organisation established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade.

Starting her career at the HKTDC Head Office as an Executive Trainee, Ms Ko has more than 20 years of experience in international trade and business development. During her tenure in Hong Kong, she had taken charge of many flagship events (conferences and trade fairs) both in Hong Kong and the overseas, and high level business missions to Mainland China, South Korea, Japan, ASEAN countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia, Eastern Europe (Hungary and Georgia), Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden,) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai). She had also worked in HKTDC’s branch office as Marketing Manager in Tokyo and Osaka between 2007-2009.

Ms Ko graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a BSocSci (major: Psychology) and from Cardiff University with a MSc. She’s married with two children, aged 14 and 12.

Mr Gilford Law assumed the post of Director-General of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London on 25 August 2021. He is responsible for promoting Hong Kong's bilateral relations with the United Kingdom and eight other countries, namely Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Sweden.

Gilford joined the Administrative Service in 1997. He has since served in various bureaux and departments, including the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Tokyo), the Home Affairs Bureau, the Chief Secretary for Administration's Private Office and the Kwun Tong District Office. In his previous capacity as the Principal Assistant Secretary in the Food and Health Bureau, he oversaw the policies related to municipal services including public markets, environmental hygiene, pest control and burial, as well as established the home quarantine regime in Hong Kong in a bid to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gilford holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University.

Dr Gerard Lyons has spent over 30 years in senior roles in the City and public policy. From 1999-2012, he was Chief Economist, Global Head of Research and Advisor to the Board at Standard Chartered Bank. He ran a global team of 184 people and was a member of the Bank’s senior management team, sitting on its Wholesale Markets Management team, Risk Management committee and Executive Forum. In both 2010 and 2011, Bloomberg ranked his team as the most accurate economic forecasters globally. From 1989-1999, Gerard was Chief Economist and Executive Director at Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank International – then the world’s biggest bank. As well as his City career, Gerard has played an important role in public policy. In 2008, he was the Lead Advisor on the Business Council for Britain set up by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Between 2008-2016, he was a member of the International Council of The Bretton Woods Committee. Between 2009-2014, he sat on several Councils and was on the Expert Committee of the World Economic Forum.
In 2011, he was an inaugural member of the EU Commission’s Network of China Experts. Meanwhile from 2012-2016, he was Boris Johnson’s Chief Economic Advisor when he was Mayor of London. In the latter role, he championed London globally and was a key driver of delivering the London Living Wage. His contribution to economics has been recognised by his peers. In 2010 he was elected by the economic members to serve a five-year term on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, and he also joined the strategy group. Additionally, in 2011 he was made a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists.

Lord Powell was for many years Private Secretary and Adviser on foreign affairs and defence to Lady Thatcher when she was Prime Minister, and held the same position in the early part of John Major’s time as Prime Minister. Since 1992 he has been an international businessman, serving as a Board member of several major international companies including Jardine Matheson, LVMH and Caterpillar. He served as President of the China-Britain Business Council and chaired the Government’s Asia Task Force.

He is an independent member of the House of Lords and a member of the Select Committee on Secondary Legislation. He is chairman of the British Museum Trust, of the Trustees of the Said Business School at Oxford University and of Atlantic Partnership. He is a board member of LVMH and Northern Trust Corporation and on the International Advisory boards of Chubb Insurance and Barrick Gold. He is an honorary fellow of Somerville College Oxford, Kings College London and the Ashmolean Museum.

Christian Salbaing is Deputy Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Europe Limited and Managing Director - European Telecommunications of Hutchison Europe Telecommunications Limited (“H3G Europe”). H3G Europe is Hutchison Whampoa’s (HWL) principal European holding company for its 3G businesses in Europe.

Christian was previously a partner at Freshfields, the international law firm. Since joining HWL in January 2001 as MD, H3G Europe, he has overseen the coordinated rollout of HWL’s 3 Group businesses in Europe, working closely with the “3” CEO’s and reporting directly to Canning Fok, Group Managing Director of HWL. He has also been actively involved with the expansion of A.S. Watson’s health and beauty businesses in Europe and with a number of projects involving HWL’s Ports division.

Christian was appointed Deputy Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Europe in July 2005. As such, his responsibilities include representing HWL’s businesses across Europe, particularly with the European Commission and Member governments. He is also responsible for the Group’s European Corporate Headquarters in London, as well as Group European corporate, regulatory and public affairs.

Christian was appointed to the ITU Telecom Board for a 3 year term in June 2005 and sits on the Strategy Committee of the GSM Association Board.

Christian is a dual Canadian and French citizen, is bilingual in French and English and has a working practice of Italian.

Lord Sassoon is President (previously Chairman) of the China-Britain Business Council. He is also Chairman of Sir John Soane’s Museum and a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation.

He was an executive Director of Jardine Matheson from 2013 to 2020.

James was the first Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from 2010 to 2013, having been a Civil Servant (Managing Director) in HM Treasury from 2002 to 2006.

He spent most of his career in the City, starting at KPMG and then at SG Warburg (latterly UBS Warburg), ending as Vice-Chairman, Investment Banking.

James was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2007 and joined the House of Lords in 2010.

Before joining CBBC as CEO, Andrew was Executive Director (CEO-equivalent) of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, one of the biggest international business organisations in Hong Kong and one of the UK's largest overseas Chambers of Commerce globally from 2015 to 2020.

During this period he also served (2017-2020) as an Independent Non-Executive Director for Wharf REIC Ltd (Hong Kong-listed company).

Andrew was formerly a member of the UK Diplomatic Service spending much of his career working on UK policy towards and relations with China and Hong Kong, including postings to the Embassy in Beijing, as Head of the China Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and as British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao. Other overseas assignments included Chicago, and Dakar.

Andrew was educated at the University of Leeds (BA Chinese Studies, 1st Class Hons) and Beijing University (UK/China Exchange scholar).

Barnaby Swire was born in 1964 and, after education at Eton, read History and Modern Languages at University College, Oxford.

Leaving university in 1985, he joined John Swire & Sons, Ltd., and worked at various times in Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Japan, concentrating on marine businesses. He returned to the London Head Office in 1994 and is now the Chairman of John Swire & Sons, Ltd., as well as a Non-Executive Director of Swire Pacific Offshore, Ltd.

Barnaby Swire is married with four children and lives near the city of Canterbury in Kent, U.K.

Merlin Swire is Chief Executive Officer of John Swire & Sons Limited, the parent company of the Swire group. He is also Director of Swire Pacific Limited, Swire Properties Limited and Cathay Pacific Airways Limited.

Born in 1973 in the U.K, Merlin Swire is a member of the founding family of John Swire & Sons Limited. He joined the Swire group in 1997, and has worked in the Hong Kong SAR, Sydney, Shanghai, Xiamen and London.

Mr. Swire was Finance Director of John Swire & Sons Limited in 2008, and became Chief Executive Officer in January 2015. In July 2018, he became Chairman of Swire Pacific Limited, the Hong Kong-listed holding company of the group’s principal businesses in Greater China. In August 2021, he returned to London to resume the position as Chief Executive Officer of John Swire & Sons Limited.

Mr. Swire serves on the Advisory Committee of the China-Britain Business Council and the Global CEO Council of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. He is a member of The International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai.

Merlin Swire has a first class degree in Classics from Oxford University and is married with three daughters.

Mark Tucker was appointed non-executive Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 1 October 2017.

Mr Tucker is also non-executive Chairman of the Discovery Group of South Africa.

Mark’s public appointments include chairing the TheCityUK until May 2022; membership of the UK Investment Council, chairing the UK Multinational Chairmen’s Group (which brings together the largest UK-based multinational firms) and Supporting Chair of Chapter Zero. Mark also belongs to the Trade Finance Advisory Group of the International Chamber of Commerce, and to the UK Department of Trade’s Financial Services Trade Advisory Group and is a Co-Chair of the Indonesian B20 Finance and Infrastructure Taskforce. In addition, Mark was appointed a member of The Asia Society Board of Trustees in October 2021. Most recently Mark was a member of the Prime Minister’s Build Back Better Business Council.

He has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry in Asia, the US the UK, and Africa including over 30 years based in Hong Kong. Mr Tucker was most recently Group Chief Executive and President of AIA Group Limited, having joined in July 2010. Before AIA he was Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc.

Mark has served on the Court of The Bank of England, and on the Board of the Goldman Sachs Group. He is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and sits on the Advisory Board of the British Museum.

Mark gained a BA from Leeds University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales in 1985.

He is married with two children. He is passionate about football, including, for a short time, playing professionally.

Dr José Viñals was appointed Group Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC in December 2016, having joined the Group as Chairman designate in October 2016.

José joined Standard Chartered from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he was the Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. He was responsible for the oversight and direction of the IMF’s monetary and financial sector work, and he was the IMF’s chief spokesman on financial matters, including global financial stability. José was a member of the Plenary and Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board for seven years, playing a key role in the reform of international financial regulation.

José began his career as an economist before spending 25 years at the Central Bank of Spain, where he rose to be the Deputy Governor, with responsibility for all areas of the Central Bank, including monetary policy, banking regulation and supervision. José has held many other Board and advisory positions including Chair of Spain’s Deposit Guarantee Fund, Chair of the International Relations Committee at the European Central Bank, member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union, and Chair of the Working Group on Institutional Investors at the Bank for International Settlements.

He has also been a member of the European Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee; and the high-level group appointed by the President of the European Commission to examine economic challenges in the European Union. He was also a board member of the Spanish Securities Authority, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores.

José is a Board Member of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and a Member of the IIF’s Group of Trustees of the Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bretton Woods Committee and serves as a Board Member of the Social Progress Imperative.

Other external appointments include President of the International Monetary Conference; Member of the Advisory Council, TheCityUK; Committee member, The Hong Kong Association; Founding Member, United Nation’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance; Member, World Economic Forum Community of Chairmen; Advisory Board member, HM Treasury's Belt and Road, Expert Board; Co-member, Sustainable Markets Council; Member, Advisory Group of the Valencian Institute of Economic Research and Honorary Chairman, LSE Alumni Association in Spain.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Valencia; a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics; and Master's and Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Economics from Harvard University. He is a former Faculty Member of the Economics Department at Stanford University. His awards include the Premio Rey Jaime I (King James I Prize) in Economics in 2001.

Patti is one of the most experienced people working in the art world today. She has extensive knowledge in dealing with clients throughout Asia and has represented major Asian collectors at Sotheby’s auctions worldwide for three decades. For nearly 15 years of her Sotheby’s tenure, Patti was based in London, where she held the post of Head of Private Client Services Department, before her appointment as Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia in 2004. She was instrumental in the significant expansion of the company’s client base in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, building access to some of the most powerful buyers in Asia. Patti was also appointed Chairman of Sotheby’s Diamonds, a global retail venture established in 2005 that provides global clients with an exclusive opportunity to acquire important diamonds and fine diamond jewellery privately, all year round.

Patti serves on the boards of Hang Seng Bank and MGM China Holdings Limited, and is a Governor of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Educated both in Hong Kong and the UK, she received her bachelor’s degree in Monetary Economics from the London School of Economics, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Asian Arts at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

Sir Sebastian Wood is currently the Chairman, China - Schroders.

He served as Britain’s Ambassador to Germany from September 2015 to September 2020. Before his posting to Berlin, he served as British Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015.

Sebastian joined the Diplomatic Service in 1983. After a posting to the British Embassy in Bangkok, he learned Mandarin at the beginning of the 90s before serving as a First Secretary in the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996 in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong. He was Political Counsellor in Washington from 2001 to 2005 following US foreign policy in Asia. From 2005 to 2008 he was Asia-Pacific Director at the FCO (now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) before undertaking a one year secondment to Rolls-Royce from 2008 to 2009.

Before joining the Diplomatic Service Sebastian studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford.