Panellists

Chief Executive Officer, MTR Corporation Limited

 

Mr. Leong has been the Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO’) and a Member of the Board of Directors since March 2015 and a Member of the Executive Directorate since 2002. Mr. Leong joined the MTR Corporation Limited in February 2002 as the Finance Director, and was re-titled as the Finance & Business Development Director in May 2008. He was appointed as the Deputy CEO in July 2012 and the Acting CEO in August 2014. As the CEO, Mr. Leong is responsible for the Company’s overall performance in and outside of Hong Kong.

Prior to joining the MTR Corporation Limited, he worked in the accountancy and investment banking industries in London, Vancouver and Hong Kong.

Mr. Leong is a non-executive director of Mandarin Oriental International Limited, chairman of the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee, vice-chairman of The Hong Kong Housing Society, and a vice-patron and a member of the Board of Directors of The Community Chest of Hong Kong.

He was an independent non-executive director of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited.

Mr. Leong holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (subsequently a Master of Arts degree) from the University of Cambridge. He later qualified as a chartered accountant in England in 1985 and Canada in 1986. Mr. Leong is a chartered fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong.

He is also a director of some of the members of the Company’s group.