Chow Chung-kong explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
Sir Chung-kong Chow
Honorific Suffix:GBM,GBS,JP,FREng,FCGI,FIChemE
Birth Date:9 September 1950
Birth Place:Hong Kong
Office:Chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority
Term Start:1 May 2019[1]
Predecessor:Victor So Hing-who
Office1:Non-Official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Term Start1:1 July 2012
Term End1:30 June 2022
Appointed1:Leung Chun-ying
Carrie Lam
Office2:Chairman of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Term Start2:24 April 2012
Term End2:25 April 2018
Predecessor2:Ronald Arculli
Successor2:Laura Cha
Office3:CEO of the MTR Corporation
1Blankname3:Chairman
1Namedata3:Raymond Chien
Term Start3:1 December 2003
Term End3:31 December 2011
Predecessor3:Jack So
Successor3:Jay Walder

Sir Chung-kong Chow , FREng,[2] FCGI, FIChemE (; born 9 September 1950), also known as Chow Chung-kong and C.K. Chow, is a Hong Kong businessman and government appointee. He is currently chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority and is a former non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He was also chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which owns the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Previously, he was chief executive officer of the MTR Corporation, and was chief executive officer of Brambles Industries PLC, a global support services company listed in the United Kingdom and Australia, until resigning in 2003 after shareholder accusations of mismanagement.[3] [4] From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive of GKN PLC, a leading engineering company based in the United Kingdom and before that he spent 20 years with the BOC Group PLC and was appointed a director of its board and chief executive of its Gases Division in 1993.

Chow is a chartered engineer and holds BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California-Davis respectively. He also holds an MBA degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the University of Bath in 2001.

Chow was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2000 for his contribution to industry. He is a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and as the council's representative to serve on the Board of Trustees of its Shaw College.

Chow is also a member of the general committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a non-executive director of Standard Chartered plc and until the end of 2010 was non-executive chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong).[5] He was appointed chairman of HKEx in April 2012 and as a Fellow[2] at the Royal Academy of Engineering[2] in 2001.

The Hong Kong media once described Chow as one of the most powerful Chinese men in the western world.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news-print/126060/Chow-Chung-kong-to-lead-Urban-Renewal-Authority Chow Chung-kong to lead Urban Renewal Authority
  2. Web site: List of Fellows. 14 October 2014. 8 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows. dead.
  3. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/25/1064083129922.html?from=storyrhs Chow peers into his tea leaves
  4. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/25/1064083129919.html?from=storyrhs Brambles to say ciao to Sir CK
  5. http://www.standardchartered.com.hk/news/2011/press_20110110.pdf Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited Appoints Katherine Tsang as New Chairperson
  6. Macalister, Terry. "Brambles' embattled chief quits", The Guardian, 26 September 2003.