Mr Daryl Ng
Mr Daryl Ng Win-kong, SBS, JP, is Deputy Chairman of Sino Group, one of the leading developers in Hong Kong, and a key player in hotel and hospitality business.
Upholding a mission of Creating Better Lifescapes, Mr Daryl Ng champions sustainability and drives integration into the Group’s business and operations. He chairs the ESG Steering Committee, which he established in 2010 to formulate strategies, and is closely involved in important schemes such as green architecture, decarbonisation, deployment of renewable energy, plastic reduction and diversity.
A steadfast advocate of the sustainable development of the community, Mr Ng has been driving and supporting youth development, volunteering, green initiatives, innovation, heritage conservation, as well as arts and cultural projects to build a better community.
In a further effort to support the community, Mr Ng has founded the Hong Kong Community Foundation to promote positivity in the community, the Hong Kong Innovation Foundation to provide a holistic innovation ecosystem, and the Hong Kong-ASEAN Foundation to deepen ties between Hong Kong and the ASEAN.
Mr Ng is enthusiastic about supporting the youth, and has initiated an array of undertakings conducive to youth development such as complimentary coding classes, which has benefitted more than 6,000 primary and secondary school students; English newswriting programmes, hospitality training programmes to empower the young generations with essential skills. He encourages proprietary innovations and collaborations with universities, and has launched projects such as the Hong Kong Science Fair to groom the next generations of scientists and inventors. The well-received platform has attracted more than 400 applications and over 20,000 fairgoers each year since launch in 2022. The Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation, which he chairs, has benefitted more than 230,000 young people over the years.
Mr Ng is passionate about heritage conservation to strengthen relations in society. The Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation (HCF), an NGO set up by the Ng Family, has revitalised the Old Tai O Police Station, a Grade II historic building completed in 1902, into the nine-room boutique hotel Tai O Heritage Hotel. It has been operated as a not-for-profit social enterprise, and builds close connections with the neighbourhood. Since opening in 2012, the hotel has welcomed more than two million visitors from Hong Kong and around the world, participated in more than 100 festivities and community services, and has received recognitions from the local and international communities. Notable example includes the Award of Merit at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation organised by the UNESCO in 2013, becoming Hong Kong’s first UNESCO-awarded hotel. Other notable heritage projects he has worked on include supporting restoration of the Great Wall, Yang Xi Gong in Beijing, The Fullerton Heritage project in Singapore and The Fullerton Hotel Sydney.
Mr Ng holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in New York. He was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has received Honorary Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa from the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and is an honorary fellow of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
The HKSAR Government awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star to him in 2021 in recognition of his contributions to the community, in particular his work on heritage in Tai O and overseas. He received the Jinghua Award from the Beijing Municipal Government in 2020 for his contributions to international cooperations and development of Beijing as a world-class city. He was honoured with the Insignia of Knight in the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) by the French Government in 2021 in recognition of his contributions to heritage conservation and youth development.
April 2025
