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Organizing Committee
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Dr. Raymond Ch'ien, Independent Non-executive Chairman of Hang Seng Bank,  Hong Kong CPPCC (Provincial) Members Association Limited - Deputy Director of One Belt One Road and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Construction Advisory Committee, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited - Independent Non-executive Director. 
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Ms. Christina Gaw, Managing Principal and Head of Capital Markets, Gaw Capital Partners.  Ms. Gaw had been with Goldman Sachs and UBS as a Managing Director. She is a board member of The Women’s Foundation (HK). 
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​Professor Xu Yangsheng, President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.  Professor Xu is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Fellow of International Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Fellow of EU Academy of Sciences.​
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​Ms. Rosana Wong, Executive Director, Yau Lee Construction Company Limited. Ms. Wong is also a Director of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, Deputy Director of China Green Building (Hong Kong) Council , Member of Transport Advisory Committee of The Government of the HKSAR, Member of the Environment and Conservation Fund Committee of The Government of the HKSAR. 
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​Professor John French, Executive Director, Sustainability Business Hub and Accelerator, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Prof French is active in sustainable finance and investment, corporate governance, infrastructure projects, risk management and the green built environment. 
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Dr. Judy Tsui, Senior Advisor  of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Greater Bay Area Impact Forum Foundation. She also is a Board Director and Chair of the Board’s Education Strategy Committee at Wuhan College. She was previously a Visiting Scholar of the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She has served on numerous boards as Independent Non-Executive Director, including Sino-Ocean Group Holdings Ltd, CLP Holdings and China Vanke Co Ltd. She has published over 40 academic papers in prestigious journals on topics of accounting and corporate governance.  In 2003, she was the lead consultant on three consultancy projects for the HKSAR government, her work formed the basis for subsequent corporate governance reform in the Territory. Recently, Dr. Tsui co-authored a book, titled “Business Sustainability in Asia”, published by Wiley.
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​Mr. Hazem Al Nakib, Founder, Cambridge Blockchain Forum and Cambridge Blockchain Hub. He is a financial and regulatory technology expert, the Managing Partner at Sentinel Capital Group, and sits on the advisory boards of multiple companies leveraging blockchain, distributed ledger technologies (DLT), and AI, especially in the financial sector

Program Committee
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Ms. Su-Mei Thompson is CEO of Media Trust, a non-profit which seeks to give charities, under-represented communities and young people a stronger voice.  Previously, she was CEO of The Women's Foundation and a Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission.  A graduate of Cambridge and Oxford, she has been recognised for her leadership in social impact. She is the recipient of an AmCham Women of Influence Award and a Harvard Business School Association/Andy Choa fellowship for Hong Kong non-profit leaders.
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Ir. Andrew Young, Adjunct Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is now Associate Director (Innovation) for Sino Land Company Ltd with responsibility to explore and identify innovations and technologies for application in the group and explore investment opportunities in technology ventures.
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​Mr. Antony Yip, Managing Partner and CEO, China Pacific Capital. Mr. Yip is a serial entrepreneur who started his first Internet company at the age of 17.   Since then, he has started several tech companies and successfully exited with high returns for their founders and investors.
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Mr. Ethan Chan, Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Foundation Securities.  Mr. Chan is a familiar figure who appears on TV shows and speaks on radio on topics related to investments
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​Mr. Danny Kim, CEO, Quest Institute.  Danny is the founder and CTO of FullArmor Corp. Danny also holds positions as VP/Director of Valley Christian Schools Math Science and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer of Quest Institute where he utilizes his industry skills to provide innovative opportunities for students to learn sciences.
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​Mr. Simon Mak, CEO, Ascent Partners, Vice Chairperson, Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong.  Besides his professional work, he serves in a variety of not-for-profit organizations and charities. He is the founding chairman of IP Commericialization Alliance, founding director of Lions Club of Hong Kong IFC, governor and honorary treasurer of Friends of the Earth (HK).
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Professor Lo Yuk-Lam, Chairman, Hong Kong Bio-Med Innotech Association.  Prof Lo is also Chairman, Advisory Council On Food And Environmental Hygiene, Food And Health Bureau HKSAR.
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Mr. John Williamson, Board Member, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. He served as Managing Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Search Investment Group for many years.  Williamson has served on a number of industry committees.​
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Mr. Angus Choi, Chief Executive Officer, JETCO, the bank consortium operating one of the largest ATM networks in the region. Under Mr. Choi’s leadership, Jetco is leading the industry in setting up an API exchange connecting the financial services sector with various industry communities. 
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Mr. David Piesse, Chairman, International Insurance Society Ambassadors. Mr. Piesse is a frequent speaker at cyber conference worldwide on cyber liability and the use of blockchain technology for data centric security and data provenance. 
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Mr. Simon Je, Chairman, HK International Blockchain & Financial Association.  Mr. Je is an experienced entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in Global Financial and Wealth Management industry. 
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​Professor Yu Xiong, Chairman, Technology & Operations Management in Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University.  Prof. Xiong advises the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about innovation collaboration with China via his role as a member of the China-UK Innovation Expert Group.
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Mr. Fred S. Teng, President, the America China Public Affairs Institute. Previously, Mr. Teng served over seven years as Chief Executive Officer of China Newsweek Corporation, the publisher of NewsChina magazine.
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​Prof Rae Kwon Chung, a Board member of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future. Prof Chung was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is also the author of the “Green Growth” concept, whereby countries should enable natural assets to deliver their full economic potential on a sustainable basis.
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Mr. Harry Cheung, the Founder & President of IPification. He has extensive experience in cybersecurity. He has previously served as the managing director of Beijing Glorysun Technology Co, president of Information Security One (China) and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of Kaspersky Lab. Apart from being a senior executive, Harry is also a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, business enabler and Identity evangelist. Harry currently works as the founder and president of IPification.

Youth and Education Committee
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Ms. Carrie Law, Senior Executive Vice Chair of Asia Co-investment Club, Association of Family Offices in Asia, Asian Private Bankers in Greater China Region, an Entrepreneur. Ms. Law is also committed to nurturing young talents. In 1992, she founded the Hong Kong SAR Outstanding Student Association. The founding mission "To Serve. To Innovate".
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Mr. Darren Fong, President of AIESES Hong Kong Limited. AIESEC is the world's largest youth-run nonprofit organization. It aims at developing youth leadership through cross-cultural exchanges. He works with 13 direct reports and 300 indirect reports from 7 local universities to plan and deliver the full range of activities across value chain to enable 400+ overseas leadership experiences.
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Mr. John O’Sullivan, Founder and CEO Coelrind Limited, Chairman of Accredited Skills for Industry, Digital Champion for UK One Digital and Business Start-up Mentor for Ravensbourne University London. He is an adviser to leading Chinese International Education Groups and helping them build partnerships in UK, Ireland and Spain. He is also a programme leader for exam delivery platform for UK Exam Boards - delivering 500,000 vocational qualifications per year.
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Mr. Andrew Mak, Director of Apex Insurance (Holdings) Limited, Founding Partner of Rockpool Capital Limited.
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Ms. Shirley Jin, The investor and trustee of the board of Wycombe Abbey International School, Hangzhou and Hangzhou Victoria Kindergarten, President of Maggie & Rose Family Members’ Club, the Greater China. She has cared about education in mainland and served the society all these years. She has been so passionate in education industry and successfully invested in several major educational brands, making great contribution to the improvement of education in mainland of China.
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Mr. ​Brian Tam, Chairman of Asia Investment & Banking Conference. AIBC is the largest student-run financial services conference in Asia on corporate advisory and financial markets, creating interactive, dynamic and experiential learning opportunities through simulating real-life professional experiences in the finance industry. Brian is an undergraduate student at London School of Economics and Political Science. He has completed his internships at Warburg Pincus LLC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, 180 Degrees Consulting and JP Morgan.

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