Professor Chung Kwong POON GBS, JP
Independent Non-Executive Director

Aged 72, he was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since 1 July 2009 and is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Professor POON is the President Emeritus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and had devoted 40 years of his life to advancing university education in Hong Kong before he retired in January 2009 from his 18-year presidency at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was honoured as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Hong Kong” in 1979; was appointed a Non-official Justice of the Peace (JP) in 1989; received the OBE award in 1991, the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) in 2002, “Leader of the Year Awards 2008 (Education)” and also the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities in 2009 from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Professor POON is a Non-Executive Director of Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited and an Independent Non-Executive Director of K. Wah International Holdings Limited and The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, all of whose shares are listed on the main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.