{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} '''David Chong Kok Kong''' ({{zh|s=张国光|zh|t=張國光|p=Zhāng Guó Guāng}}) is a lawyer and business owner. Chong is the founder and president of the Portcullis Group, which provides wealth advisory services. He is the executive chairman of Fusang<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fusang.co/team/david-chong/index.html|title=Fusang {{!}} David Chong|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=|archive-date=19 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119171857/http://fusang.co/team/david-chong/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> – the Asian Family Office, owned by his family.
==Law career== Chong is a director of David Chong Law Corporation, Singapore. Chong is a qualified barrister in the United Kingdom. He is also an advocate and solicitor, Singapore; Malaysia and Brunei; barrister and solicitor in British Virgin Islands, Australia; solicitor in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
==Wealth advisory career== Chong is the founder of Portcullis Group services. In 2013, Chong's Portcullis TrustNet firm came under the spotlight as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) identified the company as a wealth management firm that uses that offshore loopholes for wealthy individuals to evade tax.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Armstrong|first1=Rachel|title=Insight – A Singapore wealth manager under fire amid crackdown|url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-portcullis-wealth-insight/insight-a-singapore-wealth-manager-under-fire-amid-crackdown-idUKBRE9510E920130603|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227235642/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-portcullis-wealth-insight/insight-a-singapore-wealth-manager-under-fire-amid-crackdown-idUKBRE9510E920130603|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 December 2017|work=Reuters|date=3 June 2013}}</ref> The allegations surfaced as an independent contractor leaked its clients' data to the ICIJ.<ref name="ST2015">{{cite news|last1=Wong|first1=Siew Ying|title=Trust company 'ready to move on' from controversy|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/business/trust-company-ready-to-move-on-from-controversy|work=The Straits Times|date=2 November 2015}}</ref>
David Chong also owns Lintel Securities<ref>{{cite news|last1=Toh|first1=Han Shih|title=Bank chief probed over secret deals|url=https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1244473/bank-chief-probed-over-secret-deals|work=South China Morning Post|date=24 May 2013}}</ref> and the Fusang Group of companies.<ref name="ST2015" />
==Other appointments== Chong is the President of the Singapore Trustees Association (STA).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sta.org.sg/files/committee.htm|title= Singapore Trustees Association: Committee|website=www.sta.org.sg|language=en|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013053514/http://sta.org.sg/files/committee.htm|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He served as the Founding President of Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fbnasia.org/en/david-chong2016/|title=David Chong – Family Business Network Asia|website=fbnasia.org|language=en-GB|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202034729/https://fbnasia.org/en/david-chong2016/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Singapore Branch, and was the Founding President of the Singapore Fund Administrators Association (SFAA). He also sits on the Investment Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sal.org.sg/content/com_executive.aspx|title=Singapore Academy of Law: Executive Committee|website=www.sal.org.sg|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
He is a fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, where he sits on the Board of Regents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/david-chong/|title=David Chong {{!}} Harris Manchester College|website=www.hmc.ox.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> Chong is Vice Chair of the United World College of South-East Asia Foundation,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/about/uwcsea-foundation/foundation-trustees|title=Foundation Trustees|newspaper=UWCSEA {{!}} International school in Singapore|language=en|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118080130/https://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/about/uwcsea-foundation/foundation-trustees|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and sits on the Board of NUS High School of Math and Science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nushigh.edu.sg/about-us/board-of-directors-and-governors/|title=NUS High School Board of Directors and Governors|last=|first=|date=|website=www.nushigh.edu.sg|publisher=|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202052609/http://www.nushigh.edu.sg/about-us/board-of-directors-and-governors|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In appreciation for his dedicated service to education, the Singapore Ministry of Education presented Chong with a Service to Education Award in 2013.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moe.gov.sg/service-to-education-award/2013/service-to-education-award-2013-pewter|title=Service to Education Award 2013 – Pewter|website=www.moe.gov.sg|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
He also founded Oyster Security Pte Ltd whose primary role is to safeguard the Portcullis group of companies against technology risks and threats.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/business/trust-company-ready-to-move-on-from-controversy|title=Trust company 'ready to move on' from controversy|last=hermes|date=2 November 2015|work=The Straits Times|access-date=16 March 2018|language=en}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* {{cite book |author= David Chong & Co., of Singapore |chapter= Singapore Law Digest |title= Martindale Hubbell International Law Digest, Argentina-Vietnam Law Digests; Selected International Conventions; US Uniform Acts |place= New Providence, NJ and London, England |publisher= Reed Elsevier Inc.|year= 2005 |edition= 137th year |url= https://archive.org/details/martindalehubbel00reed/mode/2up |isbn= 1-56160-649-9 |access-date= 15 December 2020 |url-access= registration |via= Internet Archive}}
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