Past Speakers

The list below reflects the speaker’s role at the time of the event.

HK Association Guest Speakers

  • Joint Head of China Department (Hong Kong), Foreign & Commonwealth Office

  • Vice-President and Corporate Secretary, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

  • Member of the Hong Kong Executive Council

  • Financial Secretary, HKSAR

  • President, Asia Financial Holdings Ltd

  • Chief Secretary for Administration, Hong Kong SAR

  • Secretary for Transport and Housing, HKSAR

  • Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of HK

  • Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific

  • HM Treasury Special Envoy for the Belt and Road Initiative

  • Minister of Investment, DIT

  • Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

  • Former Lord Mayor of London

  • Chairman, Matheson & Co / Vice Chairman, HK Association

  • Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR

  • Economic Secretary to the Treasury

  • Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR

  • His Excellency The Chinese Ambassador

  • Former Legislative Councillor, Founder and CEO of Civic Exchange

  • Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of HK

  • Secretary for Education, Hong Kong SAR

  • Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury

  • Chief Executive, WPP PLC

  • Former British diplomat, Lecturer at the Centre for China Studies, CUHK

  • Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

  • Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR

  • President of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong SAR

  • The Financial Secretary, HKSARG

  • Chief Executive, International Airlines Group

  • HM Consul General in Hong Kong

  • President of the Hong Kong Association

  • His Excellency The Ambassador in Beijing

  • British Ambassador in Beijing

  • Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority

  • Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong SAR

  • Client Lead Partner, KPMG LLP

  • Director, Matheson & Co Ltd

  • Partner, Mayer Brown International LLP

  • Executive Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney

  • Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong / Managing Director, SCB

  • CEO, Parental Choice

  • Dean, Faculty of Law, HKU

  • Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong SAR Government

  • Secretary for Justice for Hong Kong

  • Partner, Mayer Brown

  • Director, China-Britain Business Council

  • Chairman, China-Britain Business Council

  • Now CEO International Europe, HSBC; former CEO China, HSBC

  • Head Investment Promotion, InvestHK

  • Associate Professor (Reader) in Economic History, LSE

  • Chairman, The Hong Kong Association

  • Senior Product Specialist, Infrastructure Debt, HSBC Holdings plc

  • Economics Editor, The Times

  • Lecturer of International Business and Comparative Management

  • Executive Director, British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

  • Chief Economist, Invesco Perpetual Fund Management

  • Chief Operating Office at the British Council

  • CTO - Red Ant

  • Director, John Swire & Sons Ltd

  • Consultant to Clifford Chance

  • Chief Economist, HSBC

  • CEO, Mezzo Labs

  • Director of Jardine Matheson & Co

  • Chairman, Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong

  • CEO of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong

  • Economist, Independent Non-executive Director, Bank of China (U.K.)

  • Director, UK & Ireland, Hong Kong Trade Development Council

  • Global Operations Director, Euromoniter International

  • Director-General of the HKETO

  • Associate at the King’s China Institute

  • Abraham Lue Lecturer in Chinese Entrepreneurship

  • Chief Executive, China Britain Business Council

  • Partner, International Arbitration & Commercial Disputes, Berwin Leighton Paisner

  • Chief Executive, China-Britain Business Council

  • Chairman of London Craft Week

  • Executive Director, British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

  • Economics Editor of The Sunday Times

  • Partner at Mayer Brown and Chair of the GBA Committee in the Law Society of HK

  • Director-General, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (London)

  • Minister of State at the FCO

  • Former Attorney General of Hong Kong

  • Director General, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (London)

  • Vice Chancellor, HKU

  • Group Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank

  • Head of China Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Senior Regional Partner at KPMG and Vice Chair of KPMG, China

  • President, Hong Kong Association

  • Professor in Political Economy, HKU

  • Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development, HKSARG

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