Ronnie C. Chan

Mr. Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and Hang Lung Properties Limited, both publicly listed companies in Hong Kong with property developments and investments in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He co-founded the privately held Morningside group which owns and manages private companies around the world. He is a former director of Standard Chartered PLC and Motorola, Inc., and was a government appointed non-executive director of The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.

Mr. Chan is Vice Chairman of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, Chairman of the Executive Committees of the Better Hong Kong Foundation and the One Country Two Systems Research Institute, and Chairman of the China Heritage Fund, which restores cultural relics in the mainland of China. He is also a member of the board of directors of the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Chan is a former member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and of the governing bodies of the East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He is also the founding chairman of the Asia Business Council and a former chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council.

Mr. Chan is a Trustee of the University of Southern California, where he received his MBA. He also is a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business and the Court of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, and has published numerous articles in the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Newsweek, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and Japan Times.