Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung
Honorific suffixGBS，CBE，JP
Birth date26 January 1952 (age 74)
Birth placeTokyo, Japan
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OfficeChairman of the Hang Seng Bank
Term start6 August 2007
PredecessorMichael Roger Pearson Smith
Office 1Chairman of the MTR Corporation
Term start 121 July 2003
Term end 131 December 2015
Predecessor 1Jack So
Successor 1Frederick Ma
SpouseWhang Hwee-Leng
Office 2Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Term start 21992
Term end 21 July 2002

traditional Chinese: 錢果豐; simplified Chinese: 钱果丰; pinyin: Qián Guǒfēng; Jyutping: cin4 gwo2 fung1 Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung GBS CBE JP (traditional Chinese: 錢果豐, born 26 January 1952), also known as Raymond Ch'ien, is a Hong Kong businessman and former politician.

Career

He is director of The Wharf Ltd. and HSBC; former non-executive chairman of MTR Corporation Limited until 2015 and chairman of CDC Corporation. He was a director of HSBC Holdings until 2007, when he became Chairman of Hang Seng Bank. [citation needed]

He chairs the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Chairman of the Hong Kong/European Union Business Cooperation Committee, and is a Hong Kong member of the APEC Business Advisory Council. He was also a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 1992 to June 2002 under both British Administration and HKSAR. He was the chairman of St Stephen's College Council.[1]

In January 2013, he was re-appointed MTR Corporation Chairman. He held this position until December 2015.[2]

Honours

He was appointed the Justice of the Peace in 1993; named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994 and awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star Medal in 1999. [citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Admin. "Statement from Dr Raymond Ch’ien, Chairman of the College Council and School Management Committee » St. Stephen's College Alumni Association". sscaa.org
  2. ^ Staff reporter. "MTR re-appoints Raymond Ch'ien as Chairman". Hong Kong Business