Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung | |
Honorific Suffix: | GBS,CBE,JP |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1952 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Alma Mater: | University of Pennsylvania |
Office: | Chairman of the Hang Seng Bank |
Term Start: | 6 August 2007 |
Predecessor: | Michael Roger Pearson Smith |
Office1: | Chairman of the MTR Corporation |
Term Start1: | 21 July 2003 |
Term End1: | 31 December 2015 |
Predecessor1: | Jack So |
Successor1: | Frederick Ma |
Spouse: | Whang Hwee-Leng |
Office2: | Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong |
Term Start2: | 1992 |
Term End2: | 1 July 2002 |
Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung GBS CBE JP (born 26 January 1952), also known as Raymond Ch'ien, is a Hong Kong businessman and former politician. "Ch'ien Kuo-fung" literally translates to "money + fruit + abundance" in Chinese.
He is director of The Wharf Ltd. and HSBC; former non-executive chairman of MTR Corporation Limited until 2015 and chairman of CDC Corporation. He was a director of HSBC Holdings until 2007, when he became Chairman of Hang Seng Bank.
He chairs the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Chairman of the Hong Kong/European Union Business Cooperation Committee, and is a Hong Kong member of the APEC Business Advisory Council. He was also a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 1992 to June 2002 under both British Administration and HKSAR. He was the chairman of St Stephen's College Council.[1]
In January 2013, he was re-appointed MTR Corporation Chairman. He held this position until December 2015.[2]
He was appointed the Justice of the Peace in 1993; named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994 and awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star Medal in 1999.