Kwok Ping Luen
Raymond Kwok Ping-luen (Raymond Kwok; born April 20, 1953) is a Hong Kong-Canadian businessman and tycoon. He is the youngest son of Kwok Tak-seng, and the younger brother of Walter Kwok and Thomas Kwok. His family started out in the wholesale grocery business and controls Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Biography
Raymond Kwok's ancestral home is Shiqi, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. He is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Chairman and CEO of SUNeVision Holdings, and Chairman of SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings. He is also a director of Transport International Holdings Limited, an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered Bank, a director of Route 3 (CPS) Company Limited and ATL Logistics Centre Hong Kong Limited.
In his early years, Raymond Kwok studied abroad in the United Kingdom and the United States. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from Harvard University, an honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the Open University of Hong Kong, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
In terms of public service, he has served as a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission, a director of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a council member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Hong Kong Port Development Council, Chairman of the Police Children’s Education Trust and Police Education and Welfare Trust, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute. He is also a member of the President's International Advisory Council of Yale University and the Asia Advisory Board of Harvard Business School.
Since 1994, he has served as a member of the Council of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; from 1997 to 1999, he was the university treasurer; since 1999, he has resumed his role as Vice-Chairman of the University Council. He is also a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]
Family
- Wife: Liu Po-chi (Helen)
- Sons: Kwok Ho-lai (Edward, visually impaired) (born 1981), Kwok Kai-wang (Christopher) (born 1986)
- Daughter: Kwok Yu-man
Bribery Investigation
On March 29, 2012, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) invited Sun Hung Kai Properties Co-Chairman Thomas Kwok, Raymond Kwok, and former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui to its headquarters to assist with an investigation into a corruption case. Later that evening, the ICAC formally announced the arrest of all three.[2][3]
On December 19, 2014, Raymond Kwok was found not guilty on all four charges by a jury at the High Court of Hong Kong and was immediately released. He was the only one among the five defendants to be fully acquitted.
See also
- Kwok Tak-seng family
References
- ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E7%82%B3%E8%81%AF#cite_ref-1
- ↑ ICAC arrests Kwok brothers and Rafael Hui for suspected corruption and misconduct Radio Television Hong Kong, March 29, 2012
- ↑ Reports suggest ICAC probing collusion between officials and businessmen in Kwok brothers case Radio Television Hong Kong, March 29, 2012
External links
- Kwok family
- People from Zhongshan, Hong Kong
- Alumni of Salesian English School
- Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Harvard University alumni
- Hong Kong businesspeople
- Sun Hung Kai Properties
- Honorary doctors of the Open University of Hong Kong
- Honorary doctors of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Kwok Tak-seng family
- Members of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Businesspeople-turned-politicians
- Pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong
- Executive members of the China Overseas Friendship Association
- Council members of the Chinese University of Hong Kong