Prof Edward K Y CHEN,

Professor Chen is Honorary Professor of the HKU Business School, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor of the Metropolitan University of Hong Kong, Chairman of the Council of Advisers of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, and independent non-executive director of First Pacific Company, Delta Asia Financial Group, and Wharf Holdings.  He is a member of the HKSAR Government Human Resources Planning Commission, an expert panel member and volume chief editor of the Hong Kong Chronicles Institute, director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, and the Chinese Institute of Hong Kong.

He is the former President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong (1995-2007) introducing liberal arts education, and former Chairman of the Consumer Council (1988-1997) promoting competition policy in Hong Kong. Professor Chen served as Chairman of the Board of HKU SPACE and a member of the HKU Council (2013-2022). He was a director of Asia Satellite Telecommunications, Peoples Telephone Company, and Mass Transit Railway Corporation.    He is also a former Member of the Executive Council (1992-1997) and the Legislative Council (1991-1992) of Hong Kong. He was Visiting Professor of the University of California Davis at various times and served as President of the Qianhai Institute for Innovative Research in Shenzhen (2014-2017).

In contributing to financial services, besides his current positions as Chairman of the Council of Advisers for Monetary Research of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research and a director of Delta Asia Financial Group, Professor Chen was a board member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (1992 to 1998), a director of the First Pacific Bank (1988 to 1993), a trustee of Lloyd George and Eaton Vance Asset Management (1990 to 2007), and a director of the Hang Seng Qianhai Asset Management (2016 to 2022).  He has co-edited a book on Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific (2015, Routledge).

Professor Chen was educated at the University of Hong Kong (BA & MSocSc) and Oxford University (DPhil). He taught economics and served as Director of the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He is a pioneer in the study of Asia’s newly industrialised economies, and has particular research interest in regional cooperation and the economics of technological change.  He has published widely in books and international reputable journals on development economics. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Hong Kong, the Metropolitan University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong, and Plymouth University in England.  He is also an Honorary Fellow of HKU SPACE. He is a Justice of the Peace, and was awarded CBE by the British Hong Kong Government and GBS by the Hong Kong SAR Government.