{"id":174464,"date":"2022-10-13T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/media\/fireside-chat-with-mr-antony-leung-and-ms-alison-chan\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:38:21","slug":"fireside-chat-with-mr-antony-leung-and-ms-alison-chan","status":"publish","type":"hkubs-media","link":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/media\/school-news\/fireside-chat-with-mr-antony-leung-and-ms-alison-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat with Mr. Antony Leung and Ms. Alison Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"

HKU Business School and Solomon Learning Group co-organized the \u201cFireside Chat with Mr. Antony Leung and Ms. Alison Chan\u201d for the Future Leader Scholarship Programme Awardees on September 27th<\/sup>, 2022. Around 30 students participated in this meaningful event and the two speakers, Mr. Antony Leung and Ms. Alison Chan engaged in a fruitful conversation with our participants in the evening. Both speakers shared their insights into identifying their career interests and developing their careers as well as how financial education makes a difference to individuals. Participants made use of the opportunities to exchange their personal experiences and proactively raise questions to the speakers on different topics about finance, education and career development.<\/p>\n

Mr. Antony Leung is the Chairman and Co-founder of Solomon Learning Group. As the former Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, he is currently the Group Chairman & CEO of Nan Fung Group, a leading regional conglomerate focusing on property & investment businesses.\u00a0 He is also Group Chairman & Co-Founder of New Frontier Group, a group that engages in the healthcare business in China. Concurrently, Mr. Leung is the Chairman of two charity organizations – Heifer Hong Kong and Food Angel. Mr. Leung also had extensive experience in financial services, including Chairman of Greater China of Blackstone, Chairman of Asia of JP Morgan Chase, Asia Head of Citi Private Bank, Regional Head of Citi Investment Bank, Treasury and Greater China.<\/p>\n

Ms. Alison Chan is the CEO and Co-founder of Solomon Learning Group. She is also the Chairman of Bring Me a Book Hong Kong and the former President and current Director of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. She is an Aspen China Fellow selected by the Aspen Institute. Alison was the Group Chief Operating Officer of New Frontier Group. Prior to joining New Frontier, she was the Chief Representative of Gerson Lehrman Group in China and was latest heading the New Markets development in Asia. She also worked in the JP Morgan investment banking division in the New York Office and GE Capital in various departments across different global offices. She graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor\u2019s in Business Administration and subsequently obtained a Master\u2019s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n

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Dean of HKU Business School, Professor Hongbin Cai presented souvenirs to speakers and representatives of Solomon Learning<\/p>\n

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Ms. Gisa Chan, Project Leader, Solomon Learning<\/p>\n

Mr. Anthony Leung, Chairman and Co-Founder, Solomon Learning<\/p>\n

Prof. Hongbin Cai, Dean, HKU Business School<\/p>\n

Ms. Alison Chan, CEO and Co-founder, Solomon Learning<\/p>\n

Mr. Oscar Chan, Project Leader, Solomon Learning<\/p>\n

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Mr. Antony Leung spoke to the audience<\/p>\n

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Mr. Antony Leung engaged Ms. Alison Chan in a conversation<\/p>\n

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The group photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174464","hkubs-media","type-hkubs-media","status-publish","hentry","media-categories-school-news-tc","media-topic-categories-teaching-and-learning-tc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/174464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hkubs-media"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/174464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176085,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/174464\/revisions\/176085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}