Mr. Y.K. PANG, GBS, JP

Y.K. Pang was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited in 2016 and Chairman of Hong Kong in 2019, having first joined the Board in 2011. He is deputy chairman of Jardine Matheson Limited, chairman of Jardine Pacific, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Zung Fu, and a director of Jardine Matheson (China) Limited. He is also a director of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental.

Mr Pang joined the Jardine Matheson Group in 1984, and first worked in a variety of positions in its trading, marketing and retail sectors. He became a director of Jardine Pacific in 1995 with responsibility for its restaurants businesses, and in 1999 he moved to Jardine Motors as chief executive officer of Zung Fu before becoming executive chairman in 2003.

Prior to taking up his current role, he was appointed in 2007 as chief executive of listed-subsidiary Hongkong Land, a property investment, management and development group.

Mr Pang was born in Hong Kong in 1960 and graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. He completed the Program for Global Leadership at Harvard Business School in 1998. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate degree by the University of Edinburgh in July 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate degree in Education by the Education University of Hong Kong in November 2018.

Mr Pang is married with two children.