Sian Hooper

Co-Head of HR – Asia Pacific
Bloomberg 

Sian  Hooper is an accomplished, regional HR leader with more than 20 years of experience across HR and People roles in investment banking, professional services, retail, and in her current capacity as Co-Head of HR for APAC at Bloomberg. 

She is passionate about empowering and leading diverse teams, creating tangible outcomes for employees, and driving meaningful HR transformations. Originally from the UK, Sian has lived in Hong Kong and worked across APAC for 13 years, developing valuable insights into one of the world’s most complex regions. 

Sian is a mother of two and plays an active role in Bloomberg’s working families community. She is a strong advocate for flexible and supportive work environments which foster inclusion, and give everyone the opportunity to learn and grow. 

David Ingles
(Moderator)

Anchor
Bloomberg Television  

David Ingles is an anchor for Bloomberg Television. He co-anchors “Bloomberg: The China Show” weekdays and co-hosts the Tiger Money podcast. Concurrently, he’s also the chief markets editor for Bloomberg TV in the Asia Pacific.   

Based in Hong Kong, Ingles provides coverage of the major macroeconomic stories and trends that shape markets and affect businesses in the Asia Pacific region. He also travels across the region to cover key stories and summits including Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, G20, and World Economic Forum where he’s interviewed some of the world’s top CEOs, political and economic leaders, tech entrepreneurs and investors.   

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Ingles was with CCTV News in Shanghai where he covered the Chinese financial markets and the country’s major economic reforms from the start of this decade. Before moving to the media industry, he spent several years in banking and financial services.   

Ingles earned his bachelor’s degree in business from the Ateneo de Manila University, and an MBA Degree in Finance from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He is fluent in English, Tagalog and Mandarin.  

Linda Lam Mei-sau

Chairperson 
Equal Opportunities Commission 

Ms Linda Lam Mei-sau, SBS, has been the Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) since 11 April 2024. She takes charge of the Commission’s efforts to eliminate discrimination through the enforcement of the anti-discrimination ordinances and promote equality of opportunities and the value of inclusion in the community.   

Ms Lam had a distinguished career in the Department of Justice that spanned 29 years. She was appointed as Crown Counsel in 1994 and had worked in various posts in different legal divisions of the Department of Justice. She was promoted through the ranks to become Principal Government Counsel in 2018. In 2021, she was appointed Law Officer and held the position of Law Officer (International Law) until 2022. In her position as Law Officer (International Law), she provided legal advice on the international law aspects of a wide range of government policies, including the implementation of bilateral and multilateral international obligations, trade and investment law, and the management of consular corps and their privileges.    

Ms Lam was called to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) and the Hong Kong Bar in 1991. She was also admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 1993. 

Christine LOH Kung-wai

Chief Development Strategist
Institute for the Environment at HKUST

Prof. Christine Loh, SBS, JP, OBE, is the Chief Development Strategist at the Institute for the Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Previously, she held the positions of Special Consultant to the Office of the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government on the ecological civilization aspects of the Greater Bay Area Outline Development Plan (2019-2020); and Under Secretary for the Environment in the HKSAR Government (2012-2017). She was the CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent non-profit public policy think tank (2000-2012). Before that, Prof. Loh served as a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, first appointed in 1992 and later elected in 1995 and 1998. Earlier, she spent 14 years in the private commercial sector in commodities trading.   

Currently, she is a Director of New Forests Pty Limited, Towngas Smart Energy Company Limited, CDP Worldwide, and Global Maritime Forum. She is also a founding Advisor to Hong Kong Green Finance Association.  

Fiona Nott

CEO
The Women’s Foundation

Fiona joined The Women’s Foundation as CEO in September 2017, combining her senior leadership experience with a passion for TWF’s mission to serve marginalised women and girls in Hong Kong. A former lawyer and Hang Seng Index company secretary, Fiona has lived in Hong Kong for over two decades having cultivated a career as a senior legal professional and adviser to a number of leading corporations in Hong Kong and around Asia.

She is the Co-Founder of Room to Read's Hong Kong Chapter and helped establish the Regional Programme office in New Delhi, India. She is a Director and former Deputy Chair of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, and was Founder and Chair of its Women in Business Network.

Fiona has received numerous accolades for her work including the "Outstanding Achievement" award for the Women in Business Law Awards Asia 2020, Non-Profit Leader of the Year at the AmCham Women of Influence Awards 2021 and Tatler’s Front & Female Hong Kong Awards 2022.

Fiona is a Fellow (FGIA FCG) of the Governance Institute of Australia and the Chartered Governance Institute, a member of the Law Society of New South Wales, Australia and a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Karndeep Singh

Young Ally 

Karndeep Singh, a Young Ally, is a local-born Indian who is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics and finance at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Karndeep has held various leadership roles and is nominated as the Alumni Manager of his alma mater, HKMA David Li Kwok Po College and as the Vice President of the Alumni Association of his primary school.

In 2022, Karndeep was awarded the Student of The Year Award - Best Devotion to School by the SCMP for his dedication in organising activities for his schoolmates during the pandemic and bringing changes to his school as the student union president. As someone who loves taking up new opportunities, he participated in The Women's Foundation (TWF)'s ground-breaking Young Allies Programme and has been serving as a volunteer at Caritas for almost a year. He is also a member of the Lead For Life programme at HKU which helps develop students' character leadership.

Karndeep has a strong interest in accessibility to education and in developing students' knowledge in STEM. After conducting a STEM Workshop with ethnic minorities, he found the need to educate parents on challenging gender-based stereotypes in education and promoting participation in STEM education to solve real-world problems.

Bernard
Charnwut CHAN

Chairman & President
Asia Financial Holdings Ltd.

The Honourable Bernard Charnwut CHAN is the Chairman & President of Asia Financial Holdings Ltd., Chairman of Asia Insurance Co. Ltd., Chairman of M Plus Museum, Chairman of Tai Kwun Culture & Arts Co. Ltd, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and Chairman of Our Hong Kong Foundation.

He previously served as a Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, the Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council, Member of the Legislative Council, Chairman of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, Chairman of the Council of Lingnan University, the Council for Sustainable Development and the Antiquities Advisory Board. He was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2006 and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2020.

Queenie Man

Founder & CEO,
The Project Futurus
Managing Director,
Forward Living and Culture Homes

Queenie is the Founder & CEO of The Project Futurus, Managing Director at Forward Living and Culture Homes. Queenie is an appointed member of The Elderly Commission HKSAR and a Board Member of AIDs Concern.

Queenie had worked as a global brand strategist for Fortune 500s prior to joining the eldercare field. Combining her insights and experiences in both branding and elderly services, Queenie established The Project Futurus in 2019 to transform the way people perceive aging through advocacy, education, community service, and impact program design. Queenie established “Captain Softmeal” (軟餐俠) to raise awareness on dysphagia health and created an immersive dim sum program “Sensory Restaurant on Wheels” (流動五感大茶樓) to deliver the joy of dim sum dining for elders living with dementia. Queenie is responsible for the rebranding of “Culture Homes” and Nordic-inspired senior community “Forward Living”.

Queenie was named “Harper’s Bazaar Visionary Women Award 2023”, “Prestige Women of Power 2023”, “Tatler Gen.T 2022 Leaders of Tomorrow” and “Jessica Most Successful Women 2021”. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington. She is also pursuing a Masters Degree in Dementia at the University of Stirling (UK) (2022-2025). She is also a certified Healthcare Worker and an Eden Alternative Associate advocating for human-centric care.

George Chen

Managing Director
Co-Chair of Digital Practice
The Asia Group

George Chen is a practitioner/scholar with over two decades of expertise across media, technology, and public policy. Currently, George is Managing Director (Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan Offices) and Co-Chair of Digital Practice for The Asia Group, advising Fortune 500 clients on geopolitics, national security, and regulatory issues. Prior to this role, George was Meta/Facebook's first and most senior policy leader for Greater China, Mongolia and Central Asia for over seven years having previously served in various editorial and management positions for media organizations for more than a decade. George is also a Senior Fellow of Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). 

George has been named a Salzburg Global Fellow (2024), Visiting Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei (2023), an alumnus of U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program (2015), Yale World Fellow at Yale University (2014) and an Asia 21 young leadership fellow of the Asia Society (2007). In 2022 George was awarded the “Medal of Friendship” by the President of Mongolia, one of the country's highest and most rare honours for foreigners. George has been on the Board of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong since 2019 and is an author of three books.

Bonnie Y Chan

Chief Executive Officer
HKEX

Bonnie Y Chan was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of HKEX on 1 March 2024. Ms Chan brings more than 30 years of global capital markets leadership and expertise. She has played a leading role in supporting the transformation of Hong Kong’s listed market and infrastructure, enhancing market quality, attractiveness, and efficiency, and helping position HKEX as a leading global exchange group.

Ms Chan has held leadership roles in legal and financial services with Asia-Pacific and global responsibilities. Before becoming CEO, Ms Chan was HKEX’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, where she oversaw the Group’s key operational and strategic functions. Ms Chan first joined HKEX as Head of IPO Transactions in 2007 from Morgan Stanley, where she spent four years leading the legal function for the investment bank’s Asia capital markets business. She rejoined HKEX in 2020 as Head of Listing, after serving as a partner at international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell focusing on capital markets between 2010 and 2019.

Vera Lui

Founder, Sally Coco
Certified Sexuality Educator

Co-founder in 2010 of the all inclusive pleasure positive intimate lifestyle shop Sally Coco, Vera Lui has been instrumental in changing attitudes towards sexual matters in Hong Kong, particularly in more conservative sectors where sex education is limited or non-existent. Her frank and often humorous videos answering common questions and reviewing intimate toys have garnered 22 million views on YouTube and over 106K subscribers. She was the driving force in launching the Women’s Festival at Eaton Workshop in 2018, an annual festival and platform exploring social topics from a female perspective. Armed with a master degree in Buddhist Counseling and certification in Sexuality Education, Lui brings a unique perspective to her work, blending compassionate counseling with comprehensive sexuality education to support and empower individuals in their personal journeys.

She is an active guest lecturer at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Saint Francis University And Hong Kong University for their gender studies courses. She has also been invited to be a speaker for TedX CUHK, Prestige Women of Power Summit and countless talks and workshops for various organizations for the past 13 years. Her teaching and sharing covers topics from intimacy and relationship, sexual pleasure, insight on the fem/sex tech, self love, sex and body positivity and of course women empowerment.

Jason S Lui

Managing Director
Markets 360 APAC Coordinator and
Head of APAC Equity &
Derivative Strategy Markets
BNP Paribas

As Markets 360 APAC Coordinator, Jason is responsible for coordinating joint economic and strategy research efforts and views in the region, across all asset classes and all countries, ensuring effective communication both internally and externally to our clients. He also works closely with sales management on a variety of client engagement events across APAC as well as regional and global roadshows for Markets 360 strategists and economists.

In addition to his role as Markets 360 APAC Coordinator, Jason also serves as Head of Global Equities for Markets 360 APAC, leading his team to generate trade ideas, thematic views, and bespoke analyses for the APAC equity markets. He is actively involved in developing the equity derivatives market with major Asian exchanges by participating in exchange-hosted industry working groups and conference panel discussions.

Jason is the Vice Chair of MixCity Hong Kong, an internal employee network, with the objective of advancing gender equality within BNP Paribas. He is also a member of the Male Allies Leadership Council for the Male Allies program organized by The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong. Prior to joining BNP Paribas in August 2017, Jason spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs as the APAC Equity Derivative Strategist, Growth Market Equity Strategist, and US Option Strategist in Hong Kong and New York. Jason is a CFA charterholder and graduated from Cornell University with a double major in Operations Research (Honors) and Computer Science.

Henry Tse

Founder and Chair
Transgender Equality Hong Kong

Henry Tse is a transgender man from Hong Kong who is best known for successfully overturning the Hong Kong-wide inhumane policy requiring “full sex reassignment surgery” for changing one’s ID card gender marker, through 2 judicial review lawsuits from 2017 to 2024.

As an LGBTI+ rights activist, his specialisation has been in strategic litigation and gender recognition legislation, in order to systemically improve the lives of the transgender and LGBTI+ community. Henry is the founder and chair of Transgender Equality Hong Kong, a community-led charity that aims at bridging the knowledge gaps in the LGBTI+ rights movement, creating impactful campaigns, and serving transpeople who are the most disadvantaged. He has extensive experience in local and international LGBTI+ human rights work, such as the UN human rights mechanisms, and large-scale community research.

Henry is the 2018 Community Business Transgender Inclusion Champion, a 2023 TIME Next Generation Leader, 2023 Tatler Gen.T Honouree, the recipient of the 2023 Prism Award issued by the Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and a Pam Baker Human Rights Scholar of the LLM (Human Rights) Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He also delivered a very well-received TEDx talk in 2023.

Ivy Au Yeung

Director
Hong Kong Dance Company and Read-Cycling Co.

Ivy is a seasoned banker with over 37 years’ experience. She previously served as the Chief Executive of OCBC Bank Hong Kong and ANZ HK. She also led major businesses for Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ, both for HK and Asia Pacific. She was on the boards of HK Life Insurance Co Ltd, Bank Consortium Trust Co Ltd as well as JETCO.

She is the convenor of the Women Chief Executive Group, working with 50+ Women Chief Executives in the financial services industry in HK to enhance diversity and inclusion as well as to attract talents to the industry. She is on the board of HK Dance Company and Read Cycling Co Ltd. Ivy holds an MBA degree from University of Sydney, Australia and a Bachelor of Social Science degree from University of Hong Kong and is a FCPA of CPA Australia.

Shalini Mahtani MH, MBE

Founder and CEO
The Zubin Foundation

Shalini Mahtani is a leading voice on women in Asia, and on diversity and inclusion. She is founder of The Zubin Foundation, Community Business and one of the founding board directors of The Women’s Foundation, Hong Kong. She has published widely on women in the workplace including the groundbreaking Women on Boards reports in Hong Kong and Mumbai, Gender Benchmarking of women across Asia and Women Leadership in Asia. She has successfully changed public policy relating to women by mobilising private sector support including the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to impose diversity requirements on listed companies and Hong Kong employers to adopt a five-day work week. She is a qualified accountant and serves on government, university and NGO boards. She believes that to effect gender equity, multisector collaboration is critical. Shalini has numerous Accolades including a Medal of Honour from the Hong Kong SAR Government, an MBE from Queen Elizabeth II, Humanity Award from the Hong Kong Red Cross.

Shalini is a Hong Kong ethnic minority who overcame significant personal barriers to obtain a university degree. Shalini has obtained her education and executive education at LSE, Harvard, Yale and Lee Kwan Yew. Shalini is married with three children.

Paul Choi
(Moderator)

Director of Human Resources,
The University of Hong Kong

Paul is currently the Director of Human Resources of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he was the former Group Head of Human Resources of Hong Kong Exchange before becoming the Founder and CEO of Twoplus Consulting which specializes in leadership development, diversity, equity and inclusion, company culture and HR strategy. Prior to Hong Kong Exchange, Paul has spent almost 20 years at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director in Human Capital Management division. Paul spent his early careers as a business and IT consultant in Andersen Consulting, an officer in Credit department of JP Morgan Trust, and also re-engineering consultant for Industrial Bank of Japan in New York and London for its merger and acquisition transition into Mizuho.

He has also been advising senior executives of corporates and non-profit organizations in the areas of management development, executive coaching, team building and group dynamics, talent assessment, diversity people strategy and management, succession planning, corporate culture, HR and people strategy and change management. Paul has deep expertise in multinational corporates especially in the financial services sector across Asia Pacific, non-profits, and small business organizations. He has previously lived and worked in New York, London, Tokyo and Shanghai, in many environments, and with all levels of management.

Paul is the Board Vice Chairman of Community Business since 2021, and is a member Association for Coaching Greater China focusing on Corporate Development. Paul has coached hundreds of senior executives, and is a mentor of hundreds of junior professionals across Asia Pacific. Paul teaches MBA and undergraduate students in Universities, and offered pro-bono services to non-profit organizations and their leadership teams.

Rachel Li

Head of Case Management
and Research
HELP for Domestic Workers

Rachel Li is the Head of Case Management and Research at HELP for Domestic Workers. She is a Hong Kong-qualified lawyer who holds a double degree in Literature and Law from the University of Hong Kong. As a public interest lawyer, she has experience in employment law, immigration and asylum law, criminal law, public policy, and legislative reform. She is deeply passionate about facilitating access to justice for women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other underprivileged communities.

José Campi Portaluppi

Director of Communications & Advocacy
Equimundo

José Campi Portaluppi is the Director of Communications and Advocacy with Equimundo. He leads Equimundo’s communications and advocacy team, amplifying research and programming on masculinities and gender justice to inspire action and drive impact in personal opinion, community norms, and public policy. Prior to joining Equimundo, José previously worked with different international organizations in educommunications, capacity strengthening, political incidence, research and learning experience design. José has an MA in gender and media from the University of Sussex.

Angelina Kwan

Managing Director, Stratford Finance Ltd
Board Chair, The Women’s Foundation

Angelina is Senior Advisor to IMC Asia Pacific, a leading global market making and proprietary trading firm. She has previously held Senior Management and Directorate positions with international digital asset exchanges, HKEX, Cantor Fitzgerald, the SFC, and other global financial services companies. She is also the Managing Director of Stratford Finance Limited, a consulting company focused on dealing with regulatory and operational issues in the financial services and digital assets sectors and advises brokerages, fund managers, and technology providers.

Angelina is currently the Board Chair of The Women’s Foundation and serves on a number of Hong Kong Government appointed Boards and charities, including the New Business Committee of the Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, the Ebenezer School for the Blind, the University of Wollongong and is an Honorary Adjunct Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Accounting and Finance. Angelina is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand and is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University, LLB from HKU/Manchester Metropolitan University, and LLM from Harvard Law School.

Dr Laurena Law

Medical doctor

Dr Laurena Law is a medical doctor who has worked in Hong Kong and Australia with a focus on women’s health and skin rejuvenation therapies through the menopause and midlife. Dr Law is a member of the International Menopause Society, Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, Healthy Longevity Medicine Society & Aesthetic Society For Asia-Pacific.

She is an accomplished fitness professional and an athlete representing Hong Kong in Muay Thai Fitness and has placed first in her category for bench press at the Hong Kong Powerlifting Championship. Trained in nutritional, lifestyle and aesthetic medicine, she is a health content creator, Tedx speaker and hosts workshops and retreats for corporations across Asia-Pacific.

Irene Lee

Chairman,
Hysan Development Ltd

Irene Lee is the executive chairman of Hysan Development Limited and is an independent non-executive chairman of Hang Seng Bank Limited. She is an independent non-executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and also an independent director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Irene also serves as a member of the board of trustees of The Better Hong Kong Foundation.

She was on the board of many listed and unlisted companies in Hong Kong, Singapore, UK and Australia, including CLP Holdings Limited, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, QBE insurance Group Limited, ING Bank (Australia) Limited, Noble Group Limited and HSBC Holdings plc, amongst others.  She was a member of the Australian Takeovers Panel, a member of the Advisory Council of JP Morgan Australia and a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

Irene had a long career in financial services and held senior positions at Citibank in New York, London and Sydney. She was the global head of corporate finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and she held other senior positions in investment banking and funds management in a number of international financial institutions.

Irene received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College, United States of America, and is a Barrister-at-Law in England and Wales and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, United Kingdom. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2022.

Tamara Lamunière
(Moderator)

President and Board Member
Tatler Asia Group

Tamara Lamunière is the President and Board Member of Tatler Asia Group, a leading regional media company with over 20 years of experience in media, marketing and communications. Driven by a vision for positive change, she champions storytelling and collaboration as essential tools for social impact.

Tamara fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration and diversity within Tatler Asia Group and the broader community through various initiatives and brand developments. Under her leadership, the organization has introduced transformative programs, redefined its strategy to emphasize impactful narratives, and diversified its revenue streams, ensuring sustained growth and relevance in an evolving media landscape.

Olivia Cotes-James

Founder and CEO, LUÜNA
Cartier Women's Initiative Fellow

LUÜNA is a woman-led and B Corp™ certified social enterprise based that exists for one purpose; to advance gender equity by democratizing access to safe and sustainable menstrual health care.

Organizations provide LUÜNA period products in washrooms, alongside taboo-free education around the menstrual cycle. LUÜNA then applies a portion of every partnership to fund projects that tackle period poverty in Asia and beyond.

Today, LUÜNA products are available in over 2,000 corporate washrooms across Asia, which has helped fund the provision of over 600,000 products to vulnerable local communities.

Olivia is recognized as an award-winning social entrepreneur, as well as a leading voice on gender equity. She is a winner of the 2023 Cartier Women’s Initiative Grant for impact entrepreneurship, Asia FemTech Influencer of the Year 2023, Hong Kong’s Young Leader of Tomorrow 2022 and Forbes 30 Under 30 2021. She has been featured in publications including FORBES, SCMP, Vogue, CNN and the Hong Kong Economic Journal.

Tim Payne

Principal, Kellaways
Asia Chair and Senior Advisor,
Chair Mentors International (CMi)

A strategic advisor with over 30 years of experience, focusing on issues of critical reputation, risk, geopolitical complexity, M&A, crisis, and governance.

Tim had a background in politics and a career spanning the UK and US. He then founded and built, over 20 years, a market leading consulting practice in Asia.

He is now Principal at Kellaways, his own management consulting firm focused on areas of reputation and trust.

He is also the Asia Chair, and Senior Advisor to CMi, the world’s leading mentoring partner for Chairs, CEOs, CEO succession candidates, CFOs and Senior Executives, accelerating their performance and impact.

Tim was Formerly Head of Asia and part of the global leadership team at Brunswick Group, the leading critical issues advisory firm.

Tim has worked on transactions and crises for many of Asia’s most significant companies, and on their highest profile issues around the world, as well as supporting leading global MNCs as they engage Asian markets. His appreciation for geopolitical, corporate, cultural, and personal complexities enables him to formulate strategies framed by context. His roots as a political campaigner, and his deep understanding of the micro and macro challenges facing the business world of Asia, strengthen his role as a transformative advisor.

As a board director of The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong and as Vice Chair and former Chair of the 30% Club, Tim is a committed advocate for inclusion, diversity, and gender parity. He sits on the International Advisory Board of the Renmin University of China, School of Business in Beijing, and is a founding director of XBMA, the International Institute for the Study of Cross-Border Investment and M&A.

Alyson Hau
(Emcee)

Radio Presenter & Producer,
Trilingual Event MC, Voice-Over Talent

Alyson Hau is a well known radio and TV presenter and voice-over talent. As a radio presenter, she has interviewed some of the most popular music artists including Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, John Legend and Dua Lipa, among many others. Currently, she hosts "In the Common Room" and "Morning Suite" on RTHK Radio 3 and Radio 2 respectively.

Alyson is an accomplished freelance Master of Ceremony, MC-ing for mega events like the Torch-Relay of the Beijing Olympics, Hong Kong International Film Festival and the International Chinese New Year Night Parade. She is a proud mother of 3 young girls, aged 7, 5 and 1.

Paul Ho

Partner, Financial Services Tax – Asia Pacific
EY

Paul is the financial services tax leader for Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific Financial Services Business Tax Services Leader at EY. With over 25 years of practical taxation experience and knowledge, Paul advises on all aspects of corporate tax issues relating to both local and multinational financial services clients including asset management companies and banks.

Paul is part of a number of associations and committees including: Honorary Adviser and member of the Taxation Committee for CPA Australia – Greater China, Fellow member of CPA Australia; Co-chairperson of the Tax Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association Hong Kong; Member of the Mainland Opportunities Committee of the Financial Services Development Council; and Member of the Taxation Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) as well as their Coalition of Service Industries Executive Committee.

Paul holds a Master of Taxation Degree from the University of Sydney.

Tze-wei Ng

Lawyer
Stephenson Harwood

Tze-wei Ng is a lawyer with the private wealth team of Stephenson Harwood based in Hong Kong, specialised in charities law and advising on philanthropic structures and ESG integration for families. She also advises on trust and legacy planning, family governance, family office set-up, wills and probate. She is passionate about working with families who want to use their wealth impactfully for social and environmental causes, or leave a legacy through art and philanthropy. She is also committed to supporting charities and social enterprises through her pro bono work or board director roles. She is currently board director of Resolve Foundation, the mission of which is to build a more inclusive Hong Kong, and HER Fund and Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres, both pioneers in empowering women and girls. She is also a board member of GA!L – the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers, an international network of lawyers focused on legal advisory with sustainability in mind.

Tze-wei was recently recognised in the Outstanding Contribution to Wealth for Good Initiatives (APAC) category at the WealthBriefing Wealth for Good Awards 2024 for her dedication and commitment to ESG initiatives and a strong sense of responsibility towards deploying capital for good.