Julia Leung

{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Julia Leung |birth_date={{birth year and age|1960}} |birth_place=[[Hong Kong]] |alma_mater=BSocSc, [[Chinese University of Hong Kong|CUHK]] MSc in Journalism, [[Columbia University]] |term_start=4 August 2008 |office=Under Secretary for [[Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau|Financial Services and the Treasury]] |1blankname=Secretary |1namedata=Professor [[KC Chan|Ka-Keung Chan]] |2blankname=Political Assistant |2namedata=[[Katherine Ng]] |image = Consensus 2026 - Julia Leung Fung-yee 01 (cropped).jpg |caption = Leung in 2026 }} '''Julia Leung Fung-yee''', [[Silver Bauhinia Star|SBS]] ({{zh|c=梁鳳儀}}) is the Chief Executive Officer of the [[Securities and Futures Commission|Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)]] of [[Hong Kong]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1704897/julia-leung-fung-yee-named-executive-director-hong-kongs-sfc|title = Julia Leung Fung-yee named executive director of Hong Kong's SFC|date = 6 February 2015}}</ref> She was formerly one of the undersecretaries appointed by the [[Government of Hong Kong]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.info.gov.hk/cml/eng/miscell/index2.htm |title=Recipients of HKSAR Honours and Awards |access-date=2013-08-26 |archive-date=2018-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026204102/https://www.info.gov.hk/cml/eng/miscell/index2.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Education== Leung holds a [[Bachelor's degree|Bachelor]] of [[Social Sciences]] degree from the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] and a [[Master of Science]] degree in [[journalism]] from the [[Columbia University]].

==Career== Leung joined the [[Hong Kong Monetary Authority]] (HKMA) in 1994 and was promoted to Executive Director (External) in 2000. She is a member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the [[Hong Kong Trade Development Council]]. Before joining HKMA, she served on the [[Asian Wall Street Journal]] for 10 years.<ref name="Info.gov.hk">Info.gov.hk. "[http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200805/20/P200805200121.htm Info.gov.hk]." ''CE appoints Under Secretaries (with photos).'' Retrieved on 2008-06-21.</ref> She has recently written a book called "The Tides of Capital". This book was published by OMFIF Press in January 2015. In this book Julia Leung distils two decades of financial diplomacy into an incisive account of the lessons Asia and the world have learned from successive bouts of crisis management. She entreats the west to take seriously the full implications of Asia's growing clout on the world economic stage. Leung calls on the US to share its dominant monetary position with others, especially China - a move towards a new monetary system and an overhaul of the governance of world finance.

Leung currently served as executive director, Investment Products upon joining the SFC in Hong Kong, and succeed Mr James Shipton as executive director, Intermediaries Division from 19 June 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfc.hk/edistributionWeb/gateway/EN/news-and-announcements/news/doc?refNo=16PR15|title=SFC}}</ref>

==Undersecretary== In 2008 she was offered the opportunity to become an undersecretary for the [[Financial services and the treasury]] under the [[Political Appointments System]].<ref name="Info.gov.hk" /> She possesses [[United Kingdom|British]] citizenship.<ref>Asia Times. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090828151915/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JF03Ad02.html Asia Times]." ''Hong Kong deputies disappoint .'' Retrieved on 2008-06-21.</ref>

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