The New Horizon Corporate Governance Conference 2018

Corporate Governance: The New Horizon Corporate Governance Conference 2018

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© 2018 PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited. All rights reserved. Day 1 Conference Programme Friday, 14 September 2018 Time Rundown and Topics Speakers/Panellists 8.20 am Registration CGC PROGRAMME 8.40 am Welcoming Address Mr David Fu FCIS FCS(PE) President, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries 8.50 am Speech by the Guest of Honour The Honourable Mr James Lau JP Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury The Government of the HKSAR 9.00 am Keynote Address Professor Mervyn King The New Horizon: New Challenges, Opportunities Chairman, International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and Thinking Session One: The New Horizon: New Values, New Responsibilities 9.30 am Financial Performance: The Holy Grail? Mr David Simmonds FCIS FCS Group General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer & Company Secretary, CLP Holdings Limited 9.50 am HKICS Research: The Need for Change? Mr Andrew Weir Regional Senior Partner, Hong Kong/Vice Chairman, KPMG China 10.10 am Session One - Panel Discussion Mr David Simmonds FCIS FCS Mr Andrew Weir Event Chair: Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCIS FCS Ms Katherine Ng Senior Vice President, Head of Policy, Listing Department Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Mr Nicholas Allen Chairman, Link Asset Management Limited 10.40 am Networking Break Session Two: The New Horizon: New Relationship with Shareholders 11.00 am To Tango: How and With Whom? Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang GBS JP Chairman, MTR Corporation Limited 11.20 am Board/Shareholders: The Cyber Dimensions? Mr Franklin Chen Regional Sales Director, Diligent Corporation 11.40 am Session Two – Panel Discussion Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang GBS JP Mr Franklin Chen Panel Chair: Professor C K Low FCIS FCS Ms Pru Bennett Associate Professor in Corporate Law Managing Director, Blackrock & CUHK Business School Head, BlackRock Investment Stewardship Team Mr Xie Bing FCIS FCS Board Secretary, China Southern Airlines Company Limited Mr Tim Payne Senior Partner, Head of Asia, Brunswick Group Ltd 12.20 pm The Registrar of Companies’ Briefing Ms Ada Chung JP Registrar of Companies, Companies Registry 12.40 pm Lunch Session Three: The New Horizon: New Strategies for Digital Age 1.20 pm Regulating in the New Digital Age Ms Julia Leung SBS Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission 1.40 pm Cybersecurity: The Losing Battle? Mr Kenneth Wong Partner, Risk Assurance Cybersecurity & Privacy Lead PwC China/Hong Kong and Asia Pacific

8 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries – Corporate Governance Conference 2018 Session Three: The New Horizon: New Strategies for Digital Age (continued) 2.00 pm Session Three –CGC Panel Discussion PROGRAMME Mr Kenneth Wong Ms Gabriela Kennedy Event Chair: Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCIS FCS Partner, Head of Asia IP & TMT Group, Mayer Brown Mr Miro Pihkanen Partner, Cyber Risk Services , Risk Advisory, Deloitte China Mr Vivek Aranha Managing Director, Link Market Services Hong Kong Ms Wong Wai Yin Senior Manager, Global Responsible Investment & Governance Asia Pacific, APG Asset Management Asia 2.40 pm Networking Break Session Four: The New Horizon: New Skills, New Mindset, New People 3.00 pm Business as Usual: Why Change? Ms Cindy Chow Executive Director, Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund 3.20 pm Leading the Change: An Involved Task? Mrs Ann Kung Deputy Chief Executive, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited 3.40 pm Session Four – Panel Discussion Ms Cindy Chow Mrs Ann Kung Event Chair: Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCIS FCS Ms Glendy Choi Executive Director & CEO, D&G Technology Holding Company Ltd Ms Hannah Carmichael Programme Director, NED Asia , Financial Times Closing Remarks: Corporate Governance for the New Horizon Company

4.20 pm Dialogue with Professor Mervyn King Ms Rachel Ng ACIS ACS Company Secretarial Manager, CLP Holdings Limited Ms Ada Au GradICSA Company Secretarial Officer, Jardine Matheson Limited Event Chairman’s Closing Colloquy 5.00 pm - Cocktail Reception The Lounge, Lobby Level 6.30 pm [ECPD = 7 Points] Note: Speakers may change dependent on their pressing commitments, and HKICS reserves the right to change speakers.

Day 2 Optional Site Visits: Operating in the New Horizon Saturday, 15 September 2018 Time Rundown and Topics Co-ordinators 9.00 am Assembly (Central Post Office) 10.00 am - Facilities Visit: Site Visit and Group Discussions 12.15 pm (In alphabetical order) Group 1 – Black Point Power Station CLP Holdings Limited Group 2 – Hongkong International CK Hutchison Holdings Limited Terminals Group 3 – Ngong Ping 360 MTR Corporation Limited Group 4 – Ocean Park Ocean Park Corporation

1.00 pm Return (Central Post Office)/Programme End [ECPD = 3 Points] Terms and Conditions Apply. Remarks: All tours are attended at attendees’ own risks and without recourse to HKICS and its employees whatsoever and howsoever arising including by reasons of any negligence and breach of duties. Please arrange your own insurances to cover your risks, as appropriate.

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Mr David Fu FCIS FCS(PE) President The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries

Mr David Fu is currently the President of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS).

Mr Fu joined the Swire group as a Group Management Trainee in 1988 and has worked with the group in Hong Kong and Beijing. He is responsible for the full spectrum of the group’s company secretarial functions, and has been Company Secretary of Swire Pacific Limited, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited since January 2006 and of Swire Properties Limited since February 2010.

Mr Fu has been a member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel and the Takeovers Appeal Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission since April 2015. He has been a member of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform since February 2017.

Mr Fu graduated from the University of Oxford in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering, Economics and Management and obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford in 1991. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Administration from the City University of Hong Kong.

Mr Fu was admitted as a Fellow of HKICS and ICSA in 2012. He was elected as a Council member of HKICS in 2014 and as the President for 2018. He served on the Institute’s Education Committee as a member from 2014 to 2015 and as the Chairman from 2016 to 2017. He has been the Honorary Secretary of The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Hong Kong since 1999.

10 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries – Corporate Governance Conference 2018 GUEST OF HONOUR PROFILE

The Honourable Mr James Lau JP Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury The Government of the HKSAR

Mr James Lau was appointed the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury on 1 July 2017.

Mr Lau joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer (AO) in 1979 and was promoted through the ranks to AO Staff Grade C in April 1988. He joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in April 1993 and was the Head and Executive Director of various divisions of the HKMA until 2004.

In July 2004, Mr Lau was seconded to the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation as Chief Executive Officer until he retired in December 2012. Mr Lau was appointed Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in January 2014.

Mr Lau holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (Computer Science and Statistics) Honours Degree and a Master of Mathematics Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Corporate Governance: The New Horizon 11 KEYNOTE SPEAKER PROFILE

Professor Mervyn King Chairman International Integrated Reporting Council

Professor Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes.

Professor King has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Universities of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Leeds in the UK, an honorary Doctorate from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a honorary Doctorate in Commerce from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, is Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II, III and IV, and Chairman of the Good Law Foundation.

Professor King is Chairman of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in London, Chairman Emeritus of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris for seven years.

Professor King is chairman of the African Integrated Reporting Council and chairman of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa.

Professor King recently received the ICGN Lifetime Achievement Award for promoting quality corporate governance globally. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; of the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK and a Chartered Director of South Africa.

Professor King has been a chairman, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants.

Professor King is the author of four books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being ‘The Chief Value Officer’.

Professor King sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.

12 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries – Corporate Governance Conference 2018 WELCOMINGCHAIR PROFILES ADDRESS

Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCIS FCS

Mr Peter Greenwood holds a Master of Arts degree in law from the University of Cambridge and a diploma in German law and legal system from the University of Tuebingen and the Justice Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2006, he completed full-time study for a Master of Arts degree in War Studies from King’s College, London University. He is a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong, as well as being qualified as an avocat in France.

Mr Greenwood was admitted as a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) and The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) in 2001. He is currently a representative of HKICS on the International Council of ICSA. He has served on different committees and panels of HKICS. From 1997 to 2005, he was a member of the Company Secretaries Panel of HKICS. He served on the Technical Committee as a consultant in 2001 and as a member in 2002 and 2003, and on the Appeal Tribunal as a member from 2005 to 2007 and as the Chairman from 2008 to 2013. Mr Greenwood was the Chairman of the Advisory Board from 2012 to 2014. Also, he has been serving on the Technical Consultation Panel as a member since 2006. He has been the Chairman of HKICS’s biennial Corporate Governance Conference for many years.

Mr Greenwood served on the HKSAR Government’s Standing Commission on Company Law Reform and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Listing Committee. He is the Co-Chairman and lead international resource on the corporate governance training programmes of the Standing Committee of Public Enterprises in India.

From 2007 to 2013 Mr Greenwood was the Group Executive Director – Strategy of CLP Holdings, one of the largest investor-owned companies in the Asian power sector, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. His principal focus was to work on matters of a strategic nature impacting the overall direction of the CLP Group. He was also responsible for the oversight of CLP Group’s corporate secretarial and legal affairs. Prior to stepping down in 2005, Mr Greenwood was an Executive Director (since 2001), the Company Secretary and Corporate Counsel (since 1996) of CLP Holdings. He retired in May 2013.

Before joining the CLP Group in 1995, Mr Greenwood was a Senior Commercial Lawyer with the Provisional Airport Authority, Hong Kong, and prior to that was in private practice as a solicitor with leading corporate law firms in London, Hamburg, Hong Kong and Paris.

Professor C K Low FCIS FCS Associate Professor in Corporate Law CUHK Business School

Professor Chee Keong Low is an Associate Professor in Corporate Law at CUHK Business School with research interests in issues pertaining to corporate governance and the regulatory framework of capital markets. His research, which has been published in journals in Australasia, Europe and the United States of America, is supported by private sector grants from Sino Group and Tricor Services.

An Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, Professor Low is a member of the Process Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council in Hong Kong and of the Executive Committee of the Asia-Pacific Structured Finance Association. He was previously a member of the Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong from May 2006 to July 2010; the Financial Reporting Review Panel from July 2007 to July 2013; as well as of the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal from April 2011 to March 2017. In addition, he served as a Director of the Asian Institute of Finance in Malaysia for three years through April 2012.

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Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS Past President and Chairman of Technical Consultation Panel, HKICS Inaugural President, CSIA

Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS is the former Company Secretary of CLP Holdings Limited. She has extensive experience and expertise in company secretarial practice and was instrumental in developing and implementing the framework of corporate governance in CLP. She was named Asian Company Secretary of the Year in 2013 by Corporate Governance Asia and is a frequent presenter on corporate governance in Hong Kong and overseas. Before joining CLP, she has worked in professional firms and academic institutions in Hong Kong and Australia.

Mrs Chan is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators in England and a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS). She was educated in Hong Kong and completed the Senior Executives Course at Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1997, the Leadership in the Public Sector Programme run by the HKSAR Government in 2000, and the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School, USA in 2001.

Mrs Chan was the inaugural President of Corporate Secretaries International Association (CSIA) and a Past President of HKICS, Past Chairman of HKICS’ Company Secretaries Panel and a Past Member of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Community Relations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong. Mrs Chan is currently the Chairman of HKICS’ Technical Consultation Panel, Appeal Tribunal and Public Governance Interest Group, a member of HKICS’ Nomination Committee, the Hon Secretary of The Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation and the Hon Secretary of The Hong Kong Women Professionals & Entrepreneurs Association Limited.

14 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries – Corporate Governance Conference 2018 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) is proud to present: Corporate Governance Week 2018

Corporate Governance Paper Competition on ‘Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability’ and Presentation Award 2017 Please attend and engage with aspiring talents, company secretaries, governance leaders and regulators on key 8-15 September 2018 corporate governance (CG) issues for new perspectives.

8 September: CG Paper Competition, Presentation and Awards

12–14 September: Enhanced Continuing Professional Development Seminars, Hohhot, Mainland China

13 September: KPMG/CLP/HKICS ESG Research Report release

14 September: Biennial Corporate Governance Conference (CGC) ‘Corporate Governance: The New Horizon’

Corporate Governance: • Guest of Honour – The Honourable James Lau, Secretary for The New Horizon Financial Services and the Treasury Corporate Governance Conference 2018 • Keynote Speaker - Professor Mervyn King – Chairman, International Integrated Reporting Council

15 September: CGC Corporate Visits

15 September: HKICS Students’ Masterclass - For more information, Professor Mervyn King please contact: 2881 6177 or email: [email protected] www.hkics.org.hk

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CGWeek-draft4_csj.indd 1 31/8/18 4:01 pm SPEAKER PROFILES (in alphabetical order)

Mr Franklin Chen Regional Sales Director Diligent Corporation

Mr Franklin Chen is the Regional Sales Director of Diligent Corporation who manages clients for Asia. Mr Chen has over 8 years of experience in the SaaS industry. As one of the key members of Diligent’s Asia team, he has helped many organizations in the region to become more effective in the governance space. With a product that is now used by over 145,000 directors, executives, and administrators, Mr Chen has been responsible for building key partnerships within the industry and for working with noted companies and many others to assist in their transition to electronic boards.

Ms Ada Chung JP Registrar of Companies Companies Registry

Ms Ada Chung is qualified as a barrister-at-law and a Certified Public Accountant. She was appointed as the Registrar of Companies in August 2007. As the Registrar of Companies, she was heavily involved in the rewrite of the Companies Ordinance. Ms Chung spearheaded the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance, the introduction of electronic company incorporation and electronic filing of company information in Hong Kong and, more recently, the implementation of the new anti-money laundering initiatives relating to the transparency of corporate beneficial ownership and a licensing regime for trust or company service providers. As a representative of the Financial Secretary, Ms Chung is an ex-officio council member of the HKICPA. She also sits on the Financial Reporting Council.

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Ms Cindy Chow Executive Director Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund

Ms Cindy Chow is the Executive Director of the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund. Ms Chow joined Alibaba Group in 2007 and has worked in the financial control and planning capacity, most recently as the Senior Director of International Finance. Before joining Alibaba, she has worked in a number of Hong Kong listed companies, specialising in financing, and management reporting and planning.

Ms Chow holds a Master of Business Administration and is a certified public accountant. Through directly investing in early staged companies and organising various internship and training programmes, she aspires to achieve the mission of the Fund which is to help Hong Kong entrepreneurs and young people realise their dreams for a vibrant world city.

Mrs Ann Kung Deputy Chief Executive Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited

Mrs Ann Kung is the Deputy Chief Executive of BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited and its subsidiaries, in charge of Personal Banking and Wealth Management Department, Personal Banking Risk and Integrated Management Department, Channel Management Department, Private Banking, BOC Credit Card (International) Limited and BOC Group Life Assurance Company Limited. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Mrs Kung possesses extensive knowledge in personal banking and a strong background in financial services. Mrs Kung actively participates in public services. She serves as a Member of the Advisory Committee of Securities and Futures Commission, a Member of the Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Sub-Committee of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Monetary Authority, a Panel Member of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Review Tribunal of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, a Member of the Standing Committee on Directorate Salaries and Conditions of Service, a Non- official Member of Hospital Authority, a Member of the Finance Committee and Funds Management Sub- Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, a Member of The Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee, a Board Member of Ocean Park Corporation, a member of the Board of Director of The Community Chest of Hong Kong, an Elected Member of General Committee and Chairman of the Banking & Financial Services Group of Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong and a Member of Finance Management Committee of The Hong Kong Management Association. Mrs Kung graduated from the University of Southern California in the United States of America where she obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting.

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Ms Julia Leung SBS Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Intermediaries Securities and Futures Commission

Ms Leung is a member of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director with responsibility for the Intermediaries Division, which comprises the Intermediaries Supervision and Licensing departments. That Division is primarily responsible for administering licensing requirements and conducting ongoing supervision of licensed corporations with a focus on their business conduct and financial soundness. Ms Leung was Executive Director responsible for the Investment Products Division from March 2015 to mid-June 2016.

Prior to joining the SFC, Ms Leung was the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury from August 2008 to December 2013. Before that, she worked with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) for 14 years, spending the last eight years as the Executive Director responsible for establishing offshore renminbi business development, financial cooperation with Mainland and other international regulators.

Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang GBS JP Chairman MTR Corporation Limited

Professor Frederick Ma was born and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1973 majoring in economics and history. Since graduation, he had taken up different major positions of various local and overseas banks, financial institutions and major companies, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Royal Bank of Canada Dominion Securities, JP Morgan Chase, Kumagai Gumi (HK) Limited and Pacific Century Cyberworks Limited. He has rich experience in banking and financial sector. In 2002, he joined the Hong Kong Government as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury and assumed the post of Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development in 2007. He resigned from the Government in July 2008 due to medical reasons. In October 2008, he was appointed as an Honorary Professor of the School of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Ma was appointed as a Member of the International Advisory Council of China Investment Corporation in July, 2009. In December 2011, he was appointed as a Permanent Honourable President of Hong Kong Special Schools Council. In January 2013, He was appointed as a member of Global Advisory Council of the Bank of America. In August 2013, he was appointed as an Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In October 2014, he was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences by Lingnan University. In October 2016, he was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences by City University of Hong Kong. In April 2017, he was appointed as the Council Chairman of The Education University of Hong Kong. In March 2018, he was appointed as a member of the Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development. Currently, he is the Chairman of MTR Corporation Limited, an Independent Non-Executive Director of FWD Group and a director of Husky Energy Inc.

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Mr David Simmonds FCIS FCS Group General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer & Company Secretary CLP Holdings Limited

Mr David Simmonds is the Council member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS), the Vice-Chairman of Membership Committee and Company Secretaries Panel, and the Chairman of Competition Law Interest Group. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) and the HKICS.

Mr Simmonds is the Group General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Company Secretary of CLP Holdings Limited (Stock code: 2).

Mr Simmonds is responsible for the corporate secretarial affairs of CLP Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries along with the Group’s corporate governance practices. He leads an experienced and dedicated team of company secretarial professionals.

As the Group General Counsel, Mr Simmonds leads a team of lawyers who provide strategic advice and counsel to CLP Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries. He has extensive infrastructure experience advising on strategic acquisitions and divestments, projects and construction, corporate structuring, regulatory issues and competition laws.

As the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Simmonds is responsible for the Group’s climate change strategy, property development and management activities, insurance services and special projects of the Chief Executive Officer.

Mr Simmonds was appointed Director – Group Legal Affairs of CLP Holdings Limited from 1 January 2009. He became the Group General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer on 30 September 2013 and was appointed the Company Secretary of CLP Holdings Limited on 1 January 2016. He is also a Director of various subsidiary companies of the CLP Group. He is also a member of Australian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macau and Asia Society.

At HKICS Mr Simmonds has served as a member of the Company Secretaries Panel and Technical Consultation Panel and the Chairman of the Technical Consultation Panel (Competition Law Interest Group) since 2016. He has also been a speaker at a number of HKICS seminars.

Mr Simmonds holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne.

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Mr Andrew Weir Regional Senior Partner, Hong Kong Vice Chairman, KPMG China Global Chairman of Real Estate and Construction, KPMG ASPAC Chairman of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, KPMG

Mr Weir is the Regional Senior Partner of KPMG in Hong Kong. He has over 25 years’ international experience servicing listed companies, public bodies, investment funds and MNCs in Hong Kong, Asia and internationally. He is the Global Chairman of Real Estate and Construction, and ASPAC Chairman of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, which also includes the real estate, hospitality and transport sectors.

Mr Weir was appointed by the HKSAR Government as a council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), and a member of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) and FSDC Policy Research Committee.

Mr Weir is Chairman of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and sits on the advisory panels of the Securities Institute, Hong Kong Investor Relations Association and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Andrew has served as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and is also the Chairman of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, and a member of the World Economic Forum B20 Trade and Investment Taskforce. He is also a board member of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) and the Asian Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV).

Mr Weir was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2017 for his contribution to trade and investment links between Hong Kong and the UK.

Mr Kenneth Wong Partner, Risk Assurance Cybersecurity & Privacy Lead PwC China/Hong Kong and Asia Pacific

Mr Kenneth Wong is a Partner in PwC’s Risk Assurance practice and our China/Hong Kong and Asia Pacific Risk Assurance Cybersecurity & Privacy practice leader. Kenneth has 20+ years of experience working in Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China in Cybersecurity strategy, governance, transformation, assessment, regulatory, and incident response services with specialist skills and experiences in large cybersecurity and privacy projects with a wide range of multinational, regional and local clients and industry sectors, including financial services, public sector organisations and regulatory authorities.

Mr Wong is actively involved in professional organisations. He is currently Director and Treasurer of the Information Systems Audit & Control Association (China Hong Kong Chapter), a member of the IT Interest Group of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a committee member of the HKPKI Forum. Kenneth has designations in Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Mr Nicholas Allen Chairman Link Asset Management Limited

Mr Nicholas Allen, aged 63, has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Manager since February 2016 and succeeded as the Chairman of the Board since April 2016. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and the Finance and Investment Committee of the Manager.

Mr Allen is the Independent Non-Executive Director of CLP Holdings Limited and also the Chairman and an Independent Non-executive Director of Link Asset Management Limited, as well as an Independent Non-executive Director of Lenovo Group Limited. He was an Independent Non-executive Director of Hysan Development Company Limited (November 2009 to May 2016) and an Independent Non-executive Director of VinaLand Limited (June 2010 to October 2016). With effect from May 1 2018 he was appointed as a non- executive independent director of Stevin Rock LLC and RAK Rock LLC, two private quarry companies located in the UAE.

Mr Allen has extensive experience in accounting and auditing as well as securities and regulatory matters. He retired as a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2007. Mr Allen served on the Securities and Futures Appeals Panel, the Takeovers and Mergers Panel, the Takeovers Appeal Committee, the Share Registrars’ Disciplinary Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission and as member of various committees of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Currently, he is the Honorary Advisor to the Financial Reporting Council of Hong Kong, and the Chairman of Vision 2047 Foundation.

Mr Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics/Social Studies from The University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is awarded ‘Directors Of The Year 2017’ by The Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

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Mr Vivek Aranha Managing Director Link Market Services Hong Kong

Mr Vivek Aranha, was appointed Chief Executive, Asia Orient Capital in 2011 and Managing Director, Link Market Services Hong Kong/Orient Capital Hong Kong in 2018.

Mr Aranha joined Link Group in 2006 when Orient Capital was acquired by Link Group from ASX Limited.

Mr Aranha l has over 21 years of experience in Investor Relations and Corporate Markets, in Asia, Australia and U.S, having joined Orient Capital in 2004.

Mr Aranha holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA.

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Ms Pru Bennett Managing Director, Blackrock & Head, BlackRock Investment Stewardship Team

Ms Pru Bennett is a Managing Director at BlackRock and is Head of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team for the Asia Pacific Region based in Hong Kong. In that role Pru leads a team that is responsible for engagement and proxy voting activities in relation to the companies in which BlackRock invests on behalf of clients. Pru’s team is located in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Ms Bennett is an active participant in the public debate on corporate governance, stewardship and responsible investment and as such regularly speaks and writes on the importance of these issues for company performance and investment decisions. In 2013, she was named as one of Australia’s top 10 Women of Influence in Corporate Governance. she represents BlackRock on a number of industry and regulatory bodies including ESG Working Group of the Australian Financial Services Council and the Public Shareholder Group of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.

In April 2017 Ms Bennett was appointed by the Government of Hong Kong to the Advisory Board to the Securities and Futures Commission. In 2018 she was appointed to the board of the Asian Corporate Governance Association

Ms Bennett is a champion of diversity and inclusion of all kinds. She is an alumna of BlackRock’s Women’s Leadership Forum. She is a member of steering groups for the Australian and Hong Kong chapters of the 30% club, a market initiative to increase the number of women on boards and in senior management. She has published a number of papers on board diversity.

Before taking on her current role in August 2010 Ms Bennett was head of Corporate Governance at institutional advisor Regnan Governance and Research until July 2010. From 1998 to 2009 she was a director of Australian proxy advisor Corporate Governance International, which was acquired by Glass Lewis & Co in 2006 and is now known as CGI Glass Lewis. Prior to working in the area of corporate governance she was Investor Relations Manager for Qantas Airways Limited.

Ms Bennett has a BCom from the University of New South Wales and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

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Ms Hannah Carmichael Programme Director, NED Asia Financial Times

Ms Hannah Carmichael is the Programme Director for the Financial Times’ Non-Executive Diploma and other FT executive education programmes, such as bespoke training, in Asia. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy and development of NED in the region and manages the programme day-to-day.

Prior to joining the FT, Ms Hannah was Development Manager for Criticaleye Asia, supporting growth and expansion of the business in the region. Before this, she was Senior Commissioner in Adult Social Care across the Tri-borough London councils, where she worked in partnership with Public Health and the NHS.

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Ms Glendy Choi Executive Director & CEO D&G Technology Holding Company Ltd

Ms Glendy Choi is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of D&G Technology Holding Company Limited (stock code: 1301.HK). She is primarily responsible for overseeing the corporate management of the Group and the overall management and implementation of business and marketing strategies and plans. Ms Choi is a master of business administration in marketing. She is one of the awardees of Young Industrialist Awards Hong Kong 2016. Ms Choi has over 20 years of experience in the trading and manufacturing of specialized engineering equipment. Her company was listed in the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2015 and is a leading medium-to-large scale asphalt mixing plant manufacturer and service provider in China. Its businesses include research and development, design, production and sales of medium-to-large scale asphalt mixing plants, and provision of services in various road infrastructure and maintenance projects in China and overseas, including a number of landmark road infrastructure projects in belt and road countries and regions.

Ms Gabriela Kennedy Partner, Head of Asia IP & TMT Group Mayer Brown

Ms Gabriela Kennedy is a partner of Mayer Brown and head of the Asia IP and TMT group. She is also co-leader of Mayer Brown’s global Intellectual Property practice. She is based in Hong Kong, practicing intellectual property, media, information technology and telecommunications law. One of the best known data privacy lawyers in the region she has been involved in high profile data privacy investigations and has conducted data audits for a number of MNCs, implemented data privacy policies and has conducted data privacy training for many clients. Gabriela advises extensively on technology and data protection issues in Hong Kong and throughout Asia, particularly in relation to business processing outsourcing, the cross-border transfer of data, data compliance and data breaches. She has handled a number of data breach complaints filed with the Privacy Commissioner in Hong Kong and has conducted in-depth data audits and drafted/devised privacy manuals and procedures for the Asia operations of a number of multi-national companies.

On the information technology side, Ms Kennedy’s particular expertise includes advising on complex IT transactions and projects, IT outsourcing, cloud-computing, mobile payments, smart card projects, the regulation of encryption technology, software licensing, and disputes stemming from failed IT projects. She has been involved with a number of international organisations in discussions involving standard setting for the cross-border transfer of data and the formulation of strategies to deal with cyber-security.

Ms Kennedy has been listed in many directories as a leading lawyer in the fields of intellectual property, technology media and telecoms as well as data protection, e-commerce and the Internet and has received a number of client and other awards. A former theoretical linguist Gabriela speaks a number of European languages including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.

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Ms Katherine Ng Senior Vice President, Head of Policy, Listing Department Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Ms Katherine Ng joined Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) in July 2013 as Head of Policy Team of the Listing Department. Prior to joining HKEX, Ms Ng served as Political Assistant to the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Hong Kong Government. Before joining the Government, Ms Ng had worked in an international investment bank and was in private practice with an international law firm in Hong Kong and London. Ms Ng holds a Master of Arts in Law from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and is a qualified lawyer in both Hong Kong and England & Wales. Ms Ng is an Advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation, a Board Director and Chair of the Education and Development Committee of Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, a director of Charitable Choice Limited, a member of the Vocational Training Council’s Banking and Finance Industry Training Board, a Trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong and a fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Mr Tim Payne Senior Partner, Head of Asia Brunswick Group Ltd

Mr Tim Payne has been with Brunswick for more than 20 years - based in London, then New York, before moving to Hong Kong in 2004 where he leads the firm’s business in Asia. Tim’s advisory work focuses on reputation management and has a critical issues focus, including crisis response and transaction communications.

Before joining Brunswick, Mr Payne was a political campaign director in the UK.

Mr Payne has worked on many of Asia’s most significant transactions and corporate situations. Projects include Alibaba’s IPO, CITIC Limited’s injection into CITIC Pacific, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s acquisition of the London Metals Exchange; Charoen Pokphand Group’s crisis response work and also its acquisition of HSBC’s stake in Ping An Insurance; GOME’s proxy fight; ICBC’s privatization of ICBC (Asia); CNOOC’s attempted acquisition of Unocal; Fonterra’s corporate communications during the melamine in milk crisis in China. Clients include CP Group, Sinopec, State Grid, CITIC, TPG, Yum Brands and Pacific Century Group.

Mr Payne is a director of The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong and Chairs the steering committee of the 30% Club, committed to improving gender balance on public company boards of directors.

28 The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries – Corporate Governance Conference 2018 PANELLIST PROFILES

Mr Miro Pihkanen Partner, Cyber Risk Services, Risk Advisory Deloitte China

Mr Miro Pihkanen is a Deloitte Partner in Hong Kong with over two decades of international experience in various areas of Cyber. He has worked across numerous industries and delivered Cyber strategies, architectures, policies, standards, and Cyber solutions and services. Before joining Deloitte he held positions in various industry sectors including FSI, CP&R, Public Sector and TMT. Most recently Mr Pihkanen has been serving Deloitte’s biggest global clients including a major global bank where he led a Cyber Transformation program focused on building a repeatable and standardised framework to assist in design and delivery of their future Cyber initiatives.

Ms Wong Wai Yin Senior Manager, Global Responsible Investment & Governance, Asia Pacific APG Asset Management Asia

Drawing on a decade of experience in research and communications, Ms Wai Yin Wong is a financial journalist-turned advocate for good corporate governance, stewardship, and responsible investment, who sees independence as the key to fairness, integrity and sustainability in capital market. Prior to joining APG, she served global leading governance and responsible investing solutions provider Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. as Head of Greater China and Singapore Research, authorised personnel and Singapore office’s compliance liaison. She gained a law Master’s degree in International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation in the UK and a science Master’s degree in Corporate Governance and Directorship in Hong Kong.

Mr Xie Bing FCIS FCS Board Secretary China Southern Airlines Company Limited

Mr Xie Bing, male, aged 44, with a university degree, graduated from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, majoring in Civil Aviation Management. He subsequently received a master degree of business administration, a master degree of business administration (international banking and finance) and an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree from Jinan University, the University of Birmingham, Britain and Tsinghua University, respectively. Mr Xie is a Senior Economist, fellow member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries, and has the qualification for Company Secretary of companies listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange and also has the qualification for Company Secretary of companies listed on Stock Exchange. Mr Xie is a CPC member and began his career in July 1995. He successively served as the Assistant of Company Secretary of the Company, and the Executive Secretary of the General Office of CSAH from 2003 to 2007. Mr Xie has been the Company Secretary and Deputy Director of the Company Secretary Office from November 2007 to December 2009. Mr Xie has been the Company Secretary and Director of the Company Secretary Office from December 2009 to May 2017. Form May 2017 till now, he has been the Company Secretary and Director of the Company Secretary Bureau of the company. For now, he also acts as Chairman of China Southern Airlines Group Capital Holding Limited and CSA International Finance Leasing Co., Ltd.

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Ms Ada Au GradICSA Company Secretarial Officer Jardine Matheson Limited

Ms Ada Au works in the Group Secretariat Department of Jardine Matheson Limited. She has over 3 years of experience in providing corporate governance and compliance services to multinational and private companies. She has exposure to companies listed in Hong Kong and overseas, as well as Initial Public Offering. Prior to joining Jardine Matheson Limited, she worked in Tricor Services Limited.

Ms Au received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is a Graduate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries.

Ms Rachel Ng ACIS ACS Company Secretarial Manager CLP Holdings Limited

Ms Rachel Ng is the Company Secretarial Manager of CLP Holdings Limited and is responsible for the corporate secretarial affairs of CLP Holdings and its subsidiaries. She has experience in company secretarial field over ten years, specialising in corporate governance practices. Before joining CLP, she has worked in professional firms and listed company in Hong Kong.

Ms Ng is an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) and The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators. She was educated in Hong Kong and completed the 2012-2013 Acceleration Management Talent Consortium Executive Program at Richard Ivey School of Business as well as the Applied Leadership Program organised by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland in 2014.

Ms Ng is currently a member of the Education Committee and the Public Governance Interest Group of HKICS as well as the HKICS representative on Young Coalition Professional Group of Hong Kong Coalition of Professional Services.

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