Mr John Lee was born in 1957. He joined the Hong Kong Police Force in 1977 as a Probationary Inspector of Police and was promoted to Deputy Commissioner of Police in 2010. He served in a variety of posts in the Force, including Assistant Commissioner (Crime), Director of Crime and Security and Deputy Commissioner (Management). He holds a Master's degree of Public Policy and Administration from Charles Sturt University in Australia.
Mr Lee was appointed Under Secretary for Security in 2012 and Secretary for Security in 2017. During his service in the Security Bureau, he was responsible for the formulation of security policies covering law and order, immigration and customs control, fire and emergency rescue services, correctional services, government flying services and other areas. He also oversaw and coordinated the work of six disciplined services departments and two auxiliary forces under the Bureau.
Mr Lee was appointed Chief Secretary for Administration in 2021. Apart from assisting the Chief Executive in policy administration, Mr Lee was also responsible for supervising the work of nine policy bureaux, harmonising the work which straddled across different bureaux and departments, as well as promoting a good relationship between the Executive Authorities and the Legislature.
Mr Lee won the Chief Executive Election of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 8 May 2022, and was appointed as the sixth-term Chief Executive by the Central People's Government on 20 May 2022. Mr Lee assumed office on 1 July 2022.
Paul Chan is the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. His policy portfolio covers a wide range of economic and livelihood-related areas, including financial services, trade, innovation and technology, land development, housing as well as transport and logistics. He is also responsible for preparing the Government’s annual Budget, and oversees the Exchange Fund with the assistance of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
Mr Chan has been Financial Secretary since January 2017, and is a member of the Executive Council. He served as Secretary for Development from July 2012 to January 2017. Before joining the Government, he held a number of public service positions, including member of the Legislative Council and Chairman of the Legal Aid Services Council.
Mr Chan has extensive private-sector experience. He is a certified public accountant. He also served as President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Chairman of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Hong Kong.
He holds Bachelor and Master degrees of Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School.
Mr Hui has been Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury since 2020. He serves on the boards of Mass Transit Railway Corporation Limited, Hong Kong Airport Authority and also as the Chairman of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
He was an Administrative Officer in the Government from 1999 to 2003 and served in the Economic Development Branch, the Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing and the Home Affairs Department. After leaving the Government, Mr Hui spent 13 years at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, having been the Managing Director for Market Development and Head of Project Management and also in various senior roles in Listing and Market Development. He worked for a number of multi-national companies in the private sector as well. He was appointed the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council from 2019 to 2020.
Mr Hui previously held a number of public roles including Councillor of the City University of Hong Kong, Member of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority Process Review Panel, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Review Committee and also Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants Disciplinary Panel.
Mr Hui holds Bachelor and Master (Hon) Degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and Master of Business Administration Degree from INSEAD. He also attended the Stanford Executive Programme (SEP).
Mr Yau assumed the post of the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development on July 1, 2022. His portfolio covers policy areas from trade, commerce to telecommunications and broadcasting, and from promotion of intellectual property and consumer protection to boosting inward investment.
Before joining the Government, Mr Yau held key managerial positions in the aviation and logistics sector. He was Chief Executive Officer of Greater Bay Airlines, and prior to this, Chief Executive Officer of Cathay Dragon, Executive Director of Cathay Pacific Board, and Director Service Delivery of Cathay Pacific. Mr Yau managed different aspects of business operations throughout his career in the private sector, and also served on various advisory bodies of the Government.
Mr Yau holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Transport and Logistics from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong.
Mr Eddie Yue was appointed Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) from 1 October 2019. He began his career as an Administrative Officer in the Hong Kong Government in 1986. He joined the HKMA upon its establishment in 1993 and was promoted to Division Head a year later. He was appointed Executive Director in 2001 and subsequently Deputy Chief Executive in 2007 before taking up his current position.
Mr Yue has participated in numerous areas of the HKMA’s work. During his tenure as Deputy Chief Executive, he steered major policies and initiatives relating to reserves management, research, external affairs and market development. Mr Yue was also actively involved in tackling major financial crises and played an instrumental role in enhancing the Linked Exchange Rate System.
Mr Yue was educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Harvard Business School.
Mr Cheung has been serving in the role as Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Authority since 2018 after retiring from the civil service in 2017. Some major positions that he held include the Commissioner of Insurance (2006 to 2009), the Postmaster General (2009 to 2011), the Commissioner of Customs and Excise (2011 to 2015), and a political appointment as Secretary for the Civil Service (2015 to 2017).
At the global and regional levels, Mr Cheung is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors as well as the Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee from 2021 to 2025. He is also a member of the Asian Forum of Insurance Regulators and its Chairman from 2018 to 2023.
Mr Chan was appointed the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury on 16 August 2017.
Mr Chan has many years of senior executive experience in the banking industry. He was a Managing Director in the Global Markets Division of Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, and was a Managing Director in Financial Markets of Standard Chartered Bank.
Prior to joining the Government, Mr Chan held multiple roles in a number of public and professional bodies, including Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, Director of Hong Kong Securities & Investment Institute, Advisor of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society, as well as a General Committee member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr Chan was also a member of the Central & Western District Council.
Mr Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hon) and Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Ms Julia Leung has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) since 1 January 2023.
Ms Leung joined the SFC in March 2015 as Executive Director of the Investment Products Division. She became Executive Director of the Intermediaries Division in June 2016 and took on the additional capacity of Deputy CEO in March 2018.
In more than 25 years of public service, Ms Leung has extensive experience in financial regulation, market development and international cooperation. Prior to joining the SFC, Ms Leung was the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury from August 2008 to December 2013. Before that, she served at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for 14 years, spending the last eight years as the Executive Director responsible for financial cooperation with Mainland and other international regulators.
Currently, she is the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and a council member of the Treasury Markets Association. She is also the Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Asia-Pacific Regional Committee.
Ms Leung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in the City of New York. In 2014, she authored a book on how Asia has surmounted various financial crises.
Ms. Cheong joined the Government in 2017 as Political Assistant to the Secretary for Innovation and Technology and was appointed as Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry in July, 2022.
Before joining the Government, Ms. Cheong served as Assistant to Executive Director and Joint General Manager at a listed company, and had experience in operation and management of real estate development, cross-boundary retail, technology investment, business development and restructuring, digital transformation, investor relations, etc. In addition to profound knowledge in the business sector, Ms. Cheong has extensive public service experience including serving as a co-opted member of the Community Building Committee of the Wan Chai District Council, adviser to a think tank, etc.
Miss Wong joined the Administrative Service in 1985. Throughout the service with the Government, Miss Wong had taken up a wide range of duties at different Bureaux and Departments, including the former City and New Territories Administration, the former Education and Manpower Branch, the Tsuen Wan District Office, the former Transport Branch, the former Housing Branch, the Wong Tai Sin District Office, the former Health and Welfare Branch (subsequently reorganised to become the former Health, Welfare and Food Bureau), the former Housing, Planning and Lands Bureau (subsequently reorganised to become the Development Bureau), and the former Food and Health Bureau. She was appointed as a Deputy Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in 2018 and subsequently as the Under Secretary for Environment and Ecology in August 2022.
Miss Wong possesses a broad spectrum of experience in various areas of public administration, including food and environmental hygiene, land development, home affairs and social welfare. During her tenure as the Under Secretary for the Environment, she helped support the formulation of policies on air quality, waste management, climate actions and conservation.
Ms Alpha Lau is the Director General of Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), a position she has held since November 2023.
InvestHK is the HKSAR Government’s dedicated investment promotion agency, providing free, confidential and customised support for companies to establish and expand in Hong Kong and to use the city as a platform for outbound investment. It delivers sector-specific advice, coordinates with relevant government bodies and professional service providers, and offers ongoing aftercare to foster sustained inward and outward business growth. InvestHK also works closely with other government departments to reflect investor feedback in policy design, strengthen the overall business environment and enhance Hong Kong’s competitiveness as an international investment hub.
Ms Lau serves on the following government boards and committees:
• Hong Kong Maritime and Port Development Board
• Task Force on Promoting and Branding Hong Kong
• International Business Committee
• Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development
• Expert Advisory Group on Legal and Dispute Resolution Services
• Mega Events Coordination Group
• Trade and Industry Advisory Board
• Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy
• Market Development Committee of the Financial Services Development Council
• Air Silk Road Task Force
• Task Force on External Relations
Prior to joining the Government, Ms Lau held senior positions in multinational and Chinese financial institutions, where she held a range of leadership roles spanning frontline business, risk and functional management. She accumulated extensive experience in serving corporate and institutional clients, high net worth wealth clients, structuring and managing complex credit exposures, driving fintech and digital transformation initiatives, and overseeing transactional banking businesses across multiple markets. She also led and participated in mergers and acquisitions and other strategic projects, giving her a strong track record in executing cross border transactions, establishing greenfield operations and supporting clients’ regional expansion.
Ms Lau holds Bachelor and Master (Hon.) Degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Certificate in further education from Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Arthur Yuen is in charge of the full range of banking policy, supervision, conduct, and enforcement issues. He joined the HKMA in 1996 as Head of Administration and has since taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000. He took up the position as Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008. He was appointed to his present position on 1 January 2010.
He has been playing an active role as member of the FSB Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation. He has also been a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision since March 2010, and a Co-Chair of the Committee’s Policy and Standards Group (“PSG”) since 2021. He also chaired the Committee’s Supervision and Implementation Group (“SIG”) from September 2018 to December 2020.
Mr Nelson Chow is responsible for developing and ensuring the stable operation of the financial market infrastructures in Hong Kong, as well as promoting the development of fintech. Since joining the HKMA in 2004, Nelson has worked in a number of functional areas, including banking development, banking supervision, banking conduct, the New York Office and the Fintech Facilitation Office. Nelson was appointed as Chief Fintech Officer in 2016 and served in the role for nearly seven years, promoting the healthy development of Hong Kong’s fintech ecosystem. Prior to taking up the current role in December 2024, Nelson was seconded to the Hong Kong FMI Services Limited as its Chief Executive Officer, maintaining the stability and operational efficiency of the financial market infrastructures under the purview of the HKMA.
Dr Eric Yip is a member of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). He is also an Executive Director heading the Intermediaries Division, which comprises the Intermediaries Supervision and Licensing departments. The Division is primarily responsible for administering licensing requirements and conducting ongoing supervision of licensed corporations with a focus on their business conduct and financial soundness.
Dr Yip is a seasoned financial professional having in-depth knowledge of the operation and regulation of the financial markets in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Prior to joining the SFC, he held senior roles in banking, asset management and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. He began his career as a Management Consultant at McKinsey and Company.
Dr Yip sits on the SFC’s Executive Committee.
Mr Enoch Fung is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (AoF). In this capacity, he also serves as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR), which is the research arm of the AoF.
Mr Fung joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in 2011, and has worked in various areas including financial stability surveillance, market development, and international financial cooperation initiatives. Mr Fung has been on secondment from the HKMA to the AoF to take up the CEO post since 2023. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Fung was a Senior Economist with Goldman Sachs (Asia), where he specialised in Asia-Pacific macroeconomic and investment research.
Georgina Lok is the Head (Market Development) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), responsible for formulating and implementing various initiatives to promote the development of Hong Kong's financial sector. Since joining the HKMA, Georgina has taken up responsibilities in different areas, including corporate development as well as international and regional cooperation. From 2017-2020, she was seconded to the International Monetary Fund, where she served as an Advisor to the Executive Director for China.
Ms Elizabeth Wong is a Director and Head of Fintech unit of the Intermediaries Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
Her work involves the formulation of the Commission’s policy on fintech matters and leading and supervising the licensing application approval process for virtual asset trading platforms, robo-advisers, virtual asset fund managers and traditional securities and asset management firms. Prior to taking up this role, Ms Wong worked in the Investment Products Division and the Intermediaries Supervision Department and played a key role in Commission-wide policy initiatives including developing and enhancing Hong Kong as an international asset management centre and introducing guidelines for regulating the sale of investment products through online distribution and advisory platforms.
Ms Wong practised as a banking and finance lawyer in Hong Kong prior to joining the Commission.
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As the Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, Mr. Leung’s mission is to attract investment and boost job creation in the financial services, fintech, and sustainability sectors in Hong Kong. Moreover, Mr. Leung and his teams also help enrich the ecosystem and contribute to raising the long-term competitiveness and innovation of the related sectors in Hong Kong. Mr. Leung achieves this goal through collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders – policy bureaus, regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech and sustainability companies, associations, etc. in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and other major international financial, fintech, and sustainability hubs.
Prior to joining the government, Mr. Leung had a diverse private sector background as a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, fintech lecturer where his first data-related startup was established through seed investment from Credit Suisse. His startup served numerous world-renowned financial institutions in wealth management, insurance, personal finance, etc. Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, King was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and KPMG Consulting in the US, as well as a venture capitalist at Innovate@, a technology fund jointly managed by Booz Allen & Hamilton and Lehman Brothers in the US.
King received his MBA in Finance and Strategy (honors) from the University of Chicago and BSc in Mechanical Engineering (honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Yvonne currently works in the Fintech Facilitation Office, where she focuses on the innovative projects of the Authority in the digital payment space; and collaborates closely with international organizations and different industry stakeholders on various areas of work of the Office. Before her current position, Yvonne gave legal advice to different teams of the Authority on a variety of central banking and regulatory issues, including financial market infrastructure development and operations, banking policies, e-money and other related regulatory matters.
Mr. Michael Law is currently Senior Fintech Director at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, with responsibilities for facilitating the healthy development of the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong. In this role, he collaborates closely with various stakeholders to advance research and development of central bank digital currencies, tokenisation, and other fintech initiatives.
Mr. Law joined the HKMA in 2009 and has worked in several key functional areas. From 2020 to 2023, he was seconded to the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., where he served as Advisor to the Executive Director for China. Earlier in his career, Mr. Law worked in investment management and strategy consulting in New York and Shanghai.
Mr. Law holds degrees from Peking University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University.
Jayne is Head of Startups at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), the government department responsible for attracting and retaining Foreign Direct Investment into Hong Kong. Her role at InvestHK is to attract innovative startups, investors and other stakeholders to Hong Kong, provide information and connections to support these companies setting up in the city, and help build the ecosystem to transform the city into a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Jayne graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc(Hons) in Zoology. Prior to joining InvestHK, Jayne was Executive Director at a global non-profit network focused on fostering entrepreneurship. She has also worked in marketing roles at various firms, managed product development for a number of startups at Hong Kong’s first tech startup incubator, provided digital strategy consulting for corporates at a consulting firm, and produced a number of interactive programmes at 4A’s & digital agencies.
Pratyush Prasanna is the Group CEO of Flip.id, Indonesia's leading fintech company. With a proven track record in payments, he previously spearheaded merchant solutions at GoTo Financial and held key leadership positions at Poynt and Paytm. In his free time, Pratyush enjoys hitting the open road on his motorcycle.
Ronit runs the Future of Finance team in Citi Global Insights, Citi’s thought leadership unit. The team is focused on the intersection of the future of money, finance and emerging tech. It provides analysis and advice to Citi’s clients and the bank’s leadership. Prior to his current role, Ronit was Citi’s Global head of Banks and FinTech Research. Alongside his Citi role, Ronit is an Advisory Board member of the Financial Technology Centre at Imperial College
Business School in London and at several technology firms and early-stage VC investors based in the U.K., Asia, Middle East & Africa. Before joining Citi in 1997, Ronit worked in the policy world, including as a Research Assistant for a former UK Prime Minister. Ronit's new book “Future Money” was published in 2024.
Ron is the Founder and Managing Partner of AFG Partners, a FinTech VC Fund with the mission to be the growth partner for the next generation of global and regional FinTechs and enabling tech companies that will transform Asian Financial Services. AFG invests in Pre-A to Series B B2B FinTechs built by entrepreneurs with specific domain expertise, strong industry networks, solving difficult problems and who are reliable partners and addressing the critical needs of Financial Institutions and challengers.
AFG is managed and advised by leaders and specialists in Asian Financial Services and backed by curated industry investors. AFG is differentiated by its unique network of Asian Financial Services expertise, with extensive industry connections that we leverage to accelerate the growth of FinTechs across the region.
Prior to AFG, Ron founded Asia Fintech Angels an Angel Investor Network of 100+ Senior Financial Services Professionals dedicated to and specialized in FinTech. During this time he invested in 20+ Fintech Companies including Blockdaemon, Unit, Aspire, Brankas and Causalens.
Ron’s career includes 25+ years of driving innovation and building businesses for global financial institutions in the US and Asia, including senior management positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ING, NewEdge and Goldman Sachs.
Ron is a graduate from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
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Ryan leads FWD’s digital platform, artificial intelligence (AI), data, and innovation teams, focusing on driving the adoption of AI at scale across the Group. In his role, Ryan oversees all aspects of digital transformation, including digital & AI strategy, customer journey design (UIUX), digital platform implementation, data science & products, future innovation, and delivering measurable business outcomes through digital and AI for the insurance business.
Prior to joining FWD in 2019, Ryan was Managing Director and Regional Head of Digital for Greater China and North Asia at Standard Chartered Bank. Before that, he held senior leadership roles at Accenture, serving as the regional lead for multiple technology offerings.
Ryan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Ryan Zega is the Head of Structured Finance at Aptos Labs, a company dedicated to building the technology and products on the Aptos network, which is an institutional-grade, high-performance public Layer 1 blockchain.
Previously, Ryan was the Senior Director of Capital Markets and Business Development at tZERO, global leading liquidity platform for private securities and digital assets. Prior to entering the digital asset space, Ryan had an extensive career in institutional real estate, spanning across acquisitions, asset management, and debt origination at a publicly traded REIT, a real estate private equity firm, and a global investment manager.
Ms Sabrina Chan is the Senior Executive Director of the Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (HKAPI). She is currently member of the High-Level Steering Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance, member of Postgraduate Pharmacy Training and Development Committee, the Pharmacy and Poison Board of Hong Kong and member of Wholesales & Retail Task Force under Business Facilitation Advisory Committee, the government of HKSAR. She is also the Chair of the Advisory Board of Pharmacy Education, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, the University of Hong Kong, member of both Clinical Translational Catalyst Assessment Panel and Data Governance Advisory Committee, HK Science and Technology Parks Corporation as well as member of Primary and Community Health Committee, HK Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA); member of Steering Committee, Asia Partnership Conference of Pharmaceutical Associations (APAC); member of APEC Biopharmaceutical Working Group on Business Ethics and member of Inter-governmental Organisation, Ethics and Compliance Committee, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA).
She was honored with the 2025 HKSAR Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Services in recognition of her contributions to health and medical development in Hong Kong and received the APEC 2020 Lighthouse Award on Business Ethics for Small and Medium Enterprises—marking the first time a person from Hong Kong has received this prestigious accolade.
Sabrina studied Communications in Hong Kong when she began her tertiary education. She holds a graduate degree in International Studies from the University of Sheffield (UK), as well as law degrees from University of Tsinghua (China) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lim Say Cheong serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Venture Capital Investment Company, a Sharia-compliant capital market firm licensed by the Capital Markets Authority of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He is responsible for the overall success of the company and for leading the development and execution of its long-term strategies aimed at enhancing shareholder value. Lim is responsible for all aspects of business activities, including advisory services, arranging, investment and distribution.
Under Lim's effective leadership, the Saudi Venture Capital Investment Company received the prestigious title of Best Islamic Funds in Saudi Arabia in 2024, along with the award for Best Advisory Firm for Islamic Wealth Management Solutions in Saudi Arabia in 2025 from the Cambridge Islamic Funds Award held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Previously, Lim held the position of CEO at Lootah Global Capital (LGC), a financial services firm wholly owned by Lootah Holding and licensed by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). He also served as Global Head of Islamic Business Development at Nomura Islamic Asset Management Malaysia, where he focused on the growth of Sharia-compliant assets under management for the Nomura Asset Management Group on a global scale.
With more than 17 years of experience in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, Lim began his career at Noor Islamic Bank as the Executive Director for Global Markets. He later became Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking at Al Hilal Bank, where he spearheaded the development and expansion of capital markets, asset management, and wealth management services. During his tenure, the Al Hilal GCC Equity Fund received accolades as the Best Islamic Fund in both 2013 and 2014.
Lim graduated with an Executive MBA from INSEAD Business School in France. He also holds a Diploma in Islamic Finance from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in the UK and a Bachelor of Science degree with double majors in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from the University of Sydney in Australia. In 2001, Lim was awarded the Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) designation, recognised as the gold standard for financial planning by the CFP Board in the USA. He has attended the Executive Leadership Programme at both The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University. He has also earned a Financial Engineering qualification from Columbia University in New York City.
As a prominent figure in Islamic finance, Lim is regarded as an industry thought leader, often contributing articles on the subject and being invited to speak at various international conferences. His remarkable leadership has been acknowledged through various accolades, including the prestigious Cambridge Islamic Finance Leadership Award 2022, conferred at Clare College, University of Cambridge.
Shaoling Dong is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of RabbitPre AI, a leading AI technology company based in Shenzhen. He is a member of the Guangdong Youth Federation and serves as Deputy Secretary-General of its Science and Technology Committee. He has been recognized as a Forbes China 30 Under 30 honoree (2017), a Shenzhen Youth Innovation Leader, and a Youth Entrepreneurship Star.
Mr. Dong began his academic journey at Sun Yat-sen University, where he earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Literature and Business Administration. He was later admitted to Peking University for graduate studies with a top-entry scholarship and obtained a Master of Law (China) and a J.D. (U.S.). He is currently pursuing an EMBA at Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance.
In 2014, Mr. Dong founded RabbitPre AI, which now specializes in AI visual foundation models. Under his leadership, the company has completed a Series E round of financing with backing from top-tier investors including Tencent, China Capital Management, and China Merchants Capital.
Mr. Dong has been invited to speak at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, was selected for the inaugural Tsinghua-Qingteng Future Technology Program, and participated in Microsoft Accelerator and Tencent AI Accelerator. He also serves as a guest lecturer at Tsinghua University and Peking University.
In 2023, he led the establishment of the PKUSZ-RabbitPre AIGC Joint Lab and was named an Outstanding Young Entrepreneur in the Greater Bay Area and a 2023 Rising AI Star by the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association.
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Simon Loong is the Founder and Group CEO of WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform with over 70 million individual users and over 700 enterprise customers in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Indonesia. Under his leadership, the company operates one of the largest digital consumer finance businesses in Asia, two digital banks and a fast-growing B2B fintech enterprise solutions business.
Simon is a strong believer and passionate about innovating the financial services industry with technology. He serves on key committees in both public and private sectors to drive the proliferation of the fintech ecosystem. He also serves on the board of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received numerous awards in recognizing his achievements, including “Innovation Leadership Achievement in Hong Kong” by The Asian Banker, “Asia’s Most Influential” by Tatler Asia, and “Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Awards” by The University of Sydney. He was also named as “one of the 20 people shaping Hong Kong’s future in the next 20 years” by a leading Chinese media outlet.
Simon has 25 years of fintech and banking experience. Prior to founding WeLab in 2013, he held various leadership roles at Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank across Asia, and sat on its retail banking management committee in Hong Kong. Simon has a master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a Fellow of Certified Public Accountant (Australia).
Inventor of commercial AI, with multiple invention patents for marketing AI
Ph.D. in Management Optimization, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning, National Science Foundation;
She has presided over several national scientific research projects in the United States;
During the postdoctoral period, the team won five world championships in PHM algorithms;
She used to be a core data scientist of eBay, Linkedin, etc., a well-known Internet company in Silicon Valley.
Launched the world's first marketings 3.0 technology: intelligent marketing;
Establish the first batch of examples of global digital and intelligent transformation: eBay, Linkedin;
She was the first to put forward the optimization theory of commercial AI users in eBay market marketing, and excavated hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marketing opportunities for eBay.
Increase user activity by up to 28 times for Linkedin, and tap valuable users with a conversion rate 31 times higher than that of ordinary active users;
Recognized by the Linkedin CEO as the best business optimization expert of his life, she won the Linkedin Reform Award
Founded Datatist, won the first place in the world's predictive analysis technology, a national high-tech, a specialized and special new enterprise in Shanghai, and a leading supplier of intelligent marketing decision-making and middle office systems
Active in the startup and investment sectors across multiple regions, Soumaya is a partner at Rasmal Ventures, the first venture capital firm established in Doha. The firm focuses on investments throughout the MENA region, with an opportunistic international allocation. Soumaya has previously held various investment roles in Silicon Valley, including positions at FI Ventures and Plug and Play Ventures, and has led operations at an SF-based startup. She holds an MBA in Investment & Sustainability from EDHEC Business School (France).
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Teddy Pornprinya is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Plume, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for Real-World Asset Finance (RWAfi).
Teddy leads the go-to-market and ecosystem strategy, connecting institutional asset issuers, market makers, and ecosystem projects to the world's largest community of RWA holders (200K+).
Before founding Plume, Teddy held a distinguished career across investment banking, venture capital, and web3 (Binance, Coinbase). His experience bridging traditional and digital finance has shaped Plume’s mission to make tokenized assets accessible, compliant, and liquid at global scale.
Today, Teddy is helping redefine how regulated financial products are issued, traded, and settled onchain. Through Plume, he's accelerating the institutional adoption of blockchain technology and setting new standards for compliant real-world asset infrastructure.
Tianwei Liu is the CEO and Co-founder of StraitsX, the stablecoin-native settlement layer powering global finance. With a background in software engineering, Tianwei has led StraitsX’s transformation from a payments company to a trusted infrastructure provider enabling compliant and programmable digital finance.
Under his leadership, StraitsX became a first-mover in regulatory-first stablecoin infrastructure, with its stablecoins XSGD and XUSD recognised under the MAS Single-Currency Stablecoin (SCS) framework. This positions StraitsX to enable institutions, fintechs, and Web3 platforms to transact with confidence in a new era of digital finance.
Tianwei’s grounding in real-world systems design began in Silicon Valley, where he returned after graduation to work as a Software Engineer at WIMM Labs, a start-up that built the world’s first Android-based smartwatches. Together with his team at WIMM Labs, they laid the foundation for Google’s WearOS™ that powers its smartwatches (WIMM Labs was acquired by Google in late 2012).
After WIMM Labs’ acquisition, Tianwei worked at Amazon Lab126 from May 2012 to June 2015, during which period, he and his team built the big data ingestion infrastructure that allows for real-time processing and analytics of the health status of all Kindle devices used daily by Amazon’s customers.
Tianwei holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) in 2011 from the National University of Singapore. Tianwei also spent a year working in Silicon Valley while studying at Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College (NOC) Programme.
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Turky Kabarah is the Director of Fintech Enablement at the Saudi Central Bank, where he oversees Fintech Strategy, Partnerships, and Advisory. With a proven track record in driving financial innovation, he previously led the Regulatory Sandbox, heading transformative initiatives that streamlined processes, enabled cutting-edge use cases such as Open Banking and crowdfunding and electronic payments, and fostered collaborations with leading partners.
Turky has played a pivotal role in shaping the Kingdom’s fintech ecosystem, contributing to the National Fintech Strategy approved by the Council of Ministers, and supporting FinTechs through enablement programs. Recognized as a thought leader, he has represented the Saudi Central Bank in fintech conferences and guided academic and community initiatives aimed at empowering future talent.
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