Age: 65 Appointed: Feb 2002 Term of office: 10 May 2023 (re-elected) to 2025 AGM

Key strengths and experience

Mr Kwok has over two decades of hospitality and real estate experience as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, as well as board and committee experience for other listed entities. Mr Kwok’s prior experience was in accounting, investment banking, and corporate and financial management. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse London in 1983, he had over 10 years of investment banking experience with Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London and Schroders Asia in Hong Kong, where he was appointed as Head of Corporate Finance in 1991. Mr Kwok then served as Finance Director of the MTR Corporation from 1996 to 2002. On 31 October 2024, Mr Kwok stepped down as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company but will remain on the Board as an Executive Director and Advisor to the CEO until the conclusion of the 2025 Annual General Meeting on 7 May 2025.


Titles, qualifications and education

Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
BSc in Economics, London School of Economics

Other major offices

Chen Hsong Holdings Limited# (Independent Non-Executive Director and Member of Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Corporate Governance Committee)
Hang Seng Bank Limited# (Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Audit Committee)
World Travel & Tourism Council (Council Member)
Faculty of Business and Economics of The University of Hong Kong (Member of International Advisory Council)
School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Advisory Board Chairman)

 

# The securities of these companies are currently listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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