Wang Peiyu
Eleanor Wong OBE, JP, English: Eleanor Wong, is a Hong Kong industrialist and social activist. She currently serves as Honorary Chairperson of the Hong Kong Textile Council.[1]
Biography
Born into the Wong textile dynasty of Shanghai and Hong Kong (the Wong Tong-yuen family) with ancestral roots in Ningbo, her grandfather Wang Qiyu was a pioneer of China’s modern cotton textile industry and her father Wang Tong-yuen became one of Hong Kong’s leading “textile kings.”[2]
In 1977 she was appointed a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and later served as Chair of its Garment Advisory Committee. She has been a director and advisory council member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a member of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (1984–1987), a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and on the Women’s Committee of the Hong Kong Ballet (since 1986). In 1991 she became Vice Patron of The Community Chest of Hong Kong. In 1993 she joined the President’s Council of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Cornell University. She is a long‑time patron of Prince of Wales Hospital, and the “Dr. Eleanor Wong Art Learning Award” of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and a scholarship at Chiu Yang Pak Hin Primary School are both named in her honor.[3]
Honours
- 1984 – Appointed Justice of the Peace, Hong Kong
- 1986 – Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- 2001 – Honorary Doctor of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong