DR. VICTOR K. FUNG, OBE
Dr. Victor K Fung is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the statutory organisation responsible for the promotion of Hong Kong's external trade.
Dr. Fung is also Chairman of Prudential Asia, the Asian investment and merchant banking arm of the Prudential Insurance Company of America; and he serves as a non-executive Chairman of Li & Fung Group, a leading Hong Kong-based regional trading
company.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Dr. Fung began his career in the Corporate Banking Group of Citibank in New York. After serving as an assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School for three years, Dr. Fung returned to Hong Kong in 1974 to join Li & Fung where he spent six years as the Group's Managing Director. In 1986 he and three partners co-founded Prudential Asia.
Dr.
Fung has long served Hong Kong as an advisor to Government and as a promoter of Hong Kong's strength as a business and trading centre around the world. He is a member of the Hong Kong Government Public Service Commission, the Central Policy Unit and the Advisory Committee to the Securities and Futures Commission.
In 1988, Dr. Fung was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his commitment to public service.
Dr. Fung hold a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering form the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctorate in Business Economics from Harvard University.
He is married to Julia Shen and has three children.
8 October 1991.
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