Global Advisory Committee

Dr. Annie Wu Suk-Ching, SBS, JP

Co-Chairperson of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Standing Committee Member of 10th, 11th, 12th CPPCC National Committee
  • Founder of Beijing Air Catering Co., Ltd., the first Sino-foreign joint venture company in China
  • Lifetime Honorary Board Member of World Trade Centers Association
  • Honorary Consul of the United Republic of Tanzania in Hong Kong and Macau

Mr. Francis Leung

Co-Chairperson of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Chairman of the Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies
  • Member of the 12th CPPCC National Committee
  • Senior Advisor of CVC Capital Partners
  • Known as “Father of the red chips” in Hong Kong
  • Former Chairman of Citigroup Global Markets, Asia and the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of BNP Paribas Peregrine

Mr. Raymond Yung

Co-Vice Chairman of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Member of the Board of Citibank Hong Kong;
  • Served as Managing Partner of PwC China Financial Services Practice
  • Heavily involved in the reform of many Chinese state-owned banks and was one of the key authors of PwC’s “China Bank Reform Roadmap” in 2002
  • Served as Advisor to the Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Mr. Marcellus Wong

Vice Chairman of AMTD Group and AMTD International, and Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Member of the Joint Liaison Committee on Taxation of the Government of HKSAR
  • Chairman of Advisory Board and former President of the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong
  • Former Senior Advisor, Partner and Asia Pacific Head of Tax Risk and Quality at PwC
  • Honorary Advisor and former President of CPA Australia, Greater China Division
  • Repeatedly named as one of the “World’s Leading Tax Advisors” in Hong Kong and Mainland China by Euromoney

Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur

Independent Director of AMTD Group and AMTD International, and Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • President and Vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo
  • Member of the strategic advisory board of Sorbonne University
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of King Abdulaziz University
  • Chairman of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative
  • Chairman of the Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure in Canada
  • A fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Dr. Donna Strickland

Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • One of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 and the first Canadian female to win Nobel Prize in Physics
  • A professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Waterloo and a pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers
  • Former president of the Optical Society (OSA)
  • Previously worked for the National Research Council Canada, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Princeton University

Dr. Timothy W.Tong, BBS, JP

Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Chairman of the Council, Hong Kong Laureate Forum
  • Independent Director at Xiaomi Corp
  • Director of Airstar Bank
  • Former President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
  • Member of the 12th and 13th CPPCC National Committee
  • Former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University
  • Former Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Pilot Green Transport Fund of the Environmental Protection Department (2013-15)
  • Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Thermal Conductivity Conference

Mr. Sin Yat-kin, SBS, CSDSM, JP

Chief of Staff of AMTD Group, Deputy Director of AMTD Foundation and Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Former Commissioner of Correctional Services
  • Deputy Manager of the campaign office of Mrs. Carrie Lam in 2017
  • Member of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Independent Non-Executive Director of LH Group
  • Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Playground Association
  • Non-Club-Linked Director of the Hong Kong Football Association
  • Advisory Council Member of the Hong Kong Army Cadets Association

Mr. Gao Yu

Member of the Board of Directors of AMTD Group, Independent Director of AMTD International and Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Managing Director of Morgan Stanley PE Division and Co-Head of the Fund’s China Investment Operations
  • Worked in Citigroup's Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Division, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's Capital Markets Group in New York
  • Independent Non-executive Director for China Dongxiang and Belle International; Non-executive Director of Sparkle Roll

Dr. Frederic Lau

Vice Chairman of AMTD Group, Executive Director and Alternate Chief Executive of Insight Virtual Bank, and Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee
  • Served as Senior Bank Examiner at the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Treasury Department of the United States, and was named capital market specialist by the agency
  • Served as Chief Representative in New York, Division Head of Banking Supervision Division and Division Head of Banking Policy Division of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
  • Served as Executive Director and Board Member at Dah Sing Banking Group and Dah Sing Bank (China), responsible for the Group’s risk management
  • Served as Independent Non-Executive Director at Ping An Bank, Independent Non-Executive Director of Shenzhen Development Bank

Dr. Bill Liu

Member of AMTD Global Advisory Committee; Founder & CEO of Royole Corporation
  • Winner of the 20th "China Youth Five Four Medal", “Top 10 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs in US & China” by Forbes, “Young Global Leader” by World Economic Forum, Global “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review, “40 Under 40” by Fortune China.
  • Served as a consultant engineer and research scientist at IBM‘s Global R&D Center in New York; founded Royole in Silicon Valley, Shenzhen and Hong Kong in 2012, and led the company to launch a series of disruptive new human-computer interaction technologies, including the thinnest flexible display in the world with a thickness of only 0.01 mm, which pioneered and led the international new product trend of flexible displays and flexible electronics.