Canning Fok Explained

Canning Fok
Nationality:British[1]
Occupation:Group managing director, Hutchison Whampoa[2]

Chairs numerous Hutchison businesses, including Hutchison Telecom International and HongKong Electric Holdings
Education:Chartered accountant, with a bachelor's degree from Saint John's University in the US

Diploma in Financial Administration from the University of New England in Australia.

Canning Fok Kin-ning (; born 1951 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong business executive. He is a director or chair of numerous management board in companies of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa. He is hailed as the "King of Employees" since he has been one of the Hong Kong's top-five taxpayers in the past few years.[3] [4]

Education

Fok holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John's University in Minnesota, United States,[5] and a Diploma in Financial Management from the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.[6]

Career

Fok is considered Li Ka-shing's right-hand man, and has worked alongside the business magnate for over 40 years as his trusted lieutenant and dealmaker.[7] [8]

Positions

Fok worked as the following positions of the following companies.[9]

Philanthropy

Fok endowed the Canning and Eliza Fok House, a graduate residence at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.[13] [14] He also endowed the Eliza and Canning Fok Endowed Fund for International Student Financial Aid at Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of Columbia University.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kin Ning Canning FOK - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) . Company House . 5 June 2018.
  2. The Independent "A day in the life of Canning Fok: Hutchison chief makes $25bn bet on a bright future for its 3 mobile group", The Independent, 18 November 2006
  3. Web site: 2021-02-04 . Hong Kong’s former best-paid executive puts two houses up for sale . 2022-05-12 . South China Morning Post . en.
  4. Web site: Asia . Tatler . Canning Fok . 2022-05-12 . Tatler Asia . en.
  5. Web site: Canning Fok '74 . 2022-05-12 . College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University . en.
  6. Web site: Pay hikes wielded as performance carrot . 2009-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604121604/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=2&art_id=36501&sid=11810943&con_type=1 . 2011-06-04 . dead .
  7. News: 2015-09-20 . Canning Fok, CK Hutchison: Li Ka-shing’s right-hand man . Financial Times . 2022-05-12.
  8. News: 2015-01-21 . Canning Fok, at the 'Hong Kong Heart' of Li Ka-shing's deal machine . en . Reuters . 2022-05-12.
  9. Web site: Canning Fok Kin-ning . 2017-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120311075723/http://people.forbes.com/profile/canning-fok-kin-ning/42161 . 2012-03-11 . dead .
  10. Web site: 2016-07-26 . HK Electric chairman renews call to maintain fixed-asset earnings level . 2022-05-12 . South China Morning Post . en.
  11. Orange plc Annual Report 1996
  12. Web site: Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Leaders. 2022-01-05.
  13. Web site: Canning and Eliza Fok House . 2022-05-12 . Murray Edwards College MCR.
  14. Web site: 2015-06-24 . Postgraduate accommodation . 2022-05-12 . Murray Edwards College - University of Cambridge . en.
  15. Web site: 2021-2022 Named Scholarship Recipients . 2022-05-12 . Columbia College . en.

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