| Carson Wen | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hk |
| Honorific-Suffix: | BBS, JP |
| Office: | Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong |
| Term Start: | 15 April 2009 |
| Term End: | 19 April 2011 |
| Predecessor: | Ip Kwok-him |
| Successor: | Starry Lee Horace Cheung |
| 1Blankname: | Chairman |
| 1Namedata: | Tam Yiu-chung |
| Office1: | Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress |
| Term Start1: | 8 December 1997 |
| Term End1: | 19 December 2012 |
| 1Blankname10: | Chairman |
| 1Namedata10: | Qiao Shi Li Peng Wu Bangguo |
| Spouse: | Fung Yuet-shan |
| Alma Mater: | Columbia University Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation: | Solicitor businessman Politician |
Carson Wen Ka-shuen, BBS, JP is a Hong Kong businessman, lawyer and politician.
Wen received his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1975,[1] and received his B.A. and M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied law and was Younger Prizeman in Law for 1976.[2]
He was a three-term deputy to the National People's Congress elected in 1997.[3] [4] He was also a former chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance and vice chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, elected in 2009.[5] [6] [7] [8] After he left in 2011, he remained an advisor to the party.[9]
He is an independent director of Phoenix New Media Ltd.[10] He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Government of Hong Kong in 2002.[11] He is the Executive Council member of the Sustainable Business Network of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).[12]
In 2016, Wen retired from the law firm Jones Day. Wen is currently Chairman of Bank of Asia (BVI), a digital, cross-border bank based in the British Virgin Islands, and the first bank to be authorized in the BVI in two decades.[13] In 2018, he launched Eurasia Continental Fintech in Astana International Financial Centre.[14]
In 2007, he was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for his contribution to economic ties between Hong Kong, Mainland China and the rest of the world.[15]