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Charles Ng
Associate
Director-General of
Investment Promotion
INVESTHK |
Mr Charles Ng was appointed as the Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion at InvestHK in July 2007. He heads up one of two divisions that is responsible for providing free and personalised services and support to help overseas, Mainland and Taiwanese companies to establish or expand their business presence in Hong Kong. His team is responsible for the following priority sectors: Business & Professional Services, Financial Services, Transportation, Food & Beverage, Renewable Energy & Environment, and Industrial Related Business.
Mr Ng’s division also looks after InvestHK’s corporate services. This team liaises with other Government departments and supports the department’s operations including the development and monitoring of management performance indicators, managing the InvestHK investment promotion ambassadors’ scheme, and coordinating with international schools over the availability of school places for expatriate children, etc.
In addition, Mr Ng is geographically responsible for InvestHK’s operations in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Nordic countries, Turkey, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Ng also has extensive experience in the private sector, previously working for companies in the manufacturing and trading sectors, as well as for multinationals in the financial services and banking sectors in Mauritius, Canada and Hong Kong. He also has experience setting up and managing his own business and running a major international Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
Mr Ng is a part-time lecturer at The University of Hong Kong’s School of Professional and Continuing Education. He speaks English, French, Cantonese, Putonghua, Hakka and Creole.
Mr Ng holds an MBA degree jointly conferred by the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (US) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s School of Business.
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Wong Sau Ngan
General Counsel
SECURITIES COMMISSION OF MALAYSIA |
WONG SAU NGAN is the General Counsel of the Securities Commission, Malaysia.
She oversees the work of the Commission in the areas of Primary Market regulatory policies; Advisory & Law reform policies; Legal & Administrative action policies.
Wong Sau Ngan has been personally involved in many of the Commission’s developmental initiatives including those relating to formulating and recommending policy & regulatory frameworks for fund raising in equity & bond markets, in collaboration with industry and market participants. She has also undertaken specific projects to restore market confidence after the 1997 financial crisis towards enhancing corporate governance, bond market and enforcement frameworks.
Throughout her employment with the Securities Commission, she has represented the Commission at numerous international and domestic forum and seminars and had contributed in several publications on the subject of financial laws and regulations.
Prior to joining the Securities Commission in 1993, Wong Sau Ngan was a Senior Assistant Manager with Bank Negara Malaysia with job functions ranging from advisory services, legislative drafting and policy formulation of banking law. Wong Sau Ngan obtained her degree in Law from the University of Malaya and her LLM from Harvard Law School.
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Mohamed Ismail Shariff
Partner
SKRINE, MALAYSIA |
Mohamed Ismail Shariff was called to the Malayan Bar in 1970 and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore in 1992. Mohamed Ismail has extensive experience in corporate law, having handled all types of corporate work for over 38 years. He has acted as leading counsel in landmark cases in the Malaysian courts on Islamic law as well as in commercial and company litigation. He has also appeared as leading counsel in arbitrations in construction and IT disputes.
Mohamed Ismail occupies a unique position in the Malaysian Bar with regard to Islamic banking. He is the only advocate & solicitor to have been associated with Islamic banking from its introduction in 1983 to the present day and drafted the first Islamic banking documents used by the banking industry.
He is also the only lawyer to have practised Islamic banking in all its various aspects, namely as (i) solicitor, (ii) counsel, (iii) tutor/lecturer, (iv) workshop leader in Islamic banking and finance, (v) paper writer and presenter at seminars and conferences, (vi) author of articles in learned journals, both local and international, (vi) member of steering committee/working groups on Islamic banking, (vii) advisor to other legal firms and also (viii) as a banker.
He has delivered talks and lectures on Islamic banking to High Court Judges, Sessions Court judges, Judicial officers, bankers, lawyers and university students.
He is a director of Kuwait Finance House Malaysia Berhad, the first foreign-owned Islamic bank in Malaysia. From January 2001 to January 2005 he was a Director of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad, the second licensed Islamic bank in Malaysia, as a nominee of Khazanah Nasional Berhad. |
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David Kan
Director - Tax Services
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS |
Education / Professional Qualifications:
- Licensed American Certified Public Accountant
- Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
David is currently the Tax Director of the Financial Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong, focusing on the Hong Kong taxation systems.
David is licensed by the American Certified Public Accountant. He began his career as a professional accountant in Toronto and in 1997, he came back to Hong Kong and specialised in tax compliance and consulting services.
Selected experience:
- He serves an extensive number of multinational clients, including investment funds, securities companies, investment-banking houses as well as conglomerates.
- He is experienced in advising on investment and operating structures, transfer pricing, securitisation, investment fund structure, and tax due diligence.
- He maintains constant dialogues with the relevant authorities on providing a level playing field from the tax perspective for Islamic Finance in Hong Kong.
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Abdelilah Belatik
Manager, Assurance - Investment Management Industry Group
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
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Education / Professional Qualifications:
- Business Engineer, Brussels - Belgium
- Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Sciences, Brussels – Belgium
- Chartered Accountant in Luxembourg
Selected experience:
- Abdelilah has over eight years of experience in auditing Financial Services Institutions in Luxembourg, New York and Hong Kong. He has an extensive experience in auditing Investment Funds including Shariah Compliant Funds, Real Estate Funds, UCITS Funds, Private Equity and Hedge Funds.
- In 2004, Abdelilah was seconded to the New York firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers to assist clients in the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley, section 404.
- He's appointed as Instructor for internal and external trainings related to accounting and auditing Investment Funds, Shariah Compliant Investment Funds and Financial Institutions.
- Abdelilah is an active member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Islamic Finance Group.
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Dominique Gribot-Carroz
Vice President – Business Development
MOODY’S |
Dominique Gribot-Carroz is a Vice President with Moody's Investors Service. She is responsible for Structured Finance Business Development activities in Asia.
She is also in charge of Moody's Fixed Income and Asset Management Strategy in the region. Dominique joined Moody's Asia in January 2007. Prior to joining Moody's, Dominique worked for 10 years with Corporate Value Associates, a global consulting firm. She focused on mergers & acquisitions, portfolio reviews and investment strategies.
Dominique holds a Master in Engineering - Finance, Economics and Statistics from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, an MA in Legal, Political and Economic Sciences from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey Business School, Hong Kong. |
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Dr. Aznan Hasan
Shariah Advisor & Associate Professor
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA |
Dr. Aznan Hasan is an Assistant Professor in Islamic law and the former head of Islamic law Department, Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia. He taught subjects such as Islamic Legal Theory, Islamic Commercial Law and Islamic Banking and Finance at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has served as a Shariah advisor to various financial Institutions and corporate bodies. Currently he serves as a member of Shariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Supreme Shariah Board that oversees the practice and implementation of Islamic principles in Malaysian Islamic banking and finance. He is also a licensed Shariah Advisor for the issuance of Islamic securities and Islamic Unit Trust Schemes, Securities Commission of Malaysia. He is also an external Shariah Fellow at Islamic Banking and Finance Institute of Malaysia (IBFIM). Dr. Aznan Hasan received his first Degree in Shariah from University of al-Azhar. He then successfully completed his Master degree in Shariah from Cairo University with distinction (mumtaz). He then obtained his Ph. D from University of Wales, Lampeter, United Kingdom |
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Ben Simpfendorfer
Chief China Economist
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Author
THE NEW SILK ROAD |
BEN SIMPFENDOFER is the Chief China Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong. He joined the bank in 2005. He previously worked as Senior China Economist at JPMorgan. He has lived in Beirut, Damascus, Beijing and Hong Kong. He appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg and is quoted in such major dailies as the Financial Times and The New York Times.
Simpfendorfer speaks Arabic and Chinese and has spent fifteen years reading local newspapers, interviewing people on the streets of Cairo to Shanghai, and assessing economic data in the two regions. He is the author of The New Silk Road: How A Rising Arab World Is Turning Away From The West And Rediscovering China published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2009. The book provides unique insights into one of the world’s fastest growing regions and the strengthening links between its economies. |
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Christina Tung
Managing Director
MAYFAIR PACIFIC FINANCIAL GROUP LIMITED |
Miss Tung is the founder and pioneer of Mayfair Pacific. She has extensive management and administration experience of more than 19 years in the wealth management industry, with expertise in managing investment portfolios comprised of global equities, bonds, and mutual funds, as well as insurance & private banking products and services.
Miss Tung was previously employed by top-tier companies including Salomon Brothers, ING Baring, Crosby Securities and the Zurich Group. During the current and previous employment, she has served both institutional and retail clients.
As Managing Director of Mayfair Pacific, Miss Tung focuses on strategic planning, particularly in the formulation of global business development strategies and the overseeing of marketing & sales activities pertaining to both institutional and retail clients.
Since November 2002, Miss Tung is an "Associate Personal Financial Planner" of The Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong. She also holds a Master degree in Business Administration.
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Christopher
Richardson
Registered
Foreign Lawyer
VINSON &
ELKINS LLP |
Christopher Richardson is a Registered Foreign Lawyer based in the Hong Kong office of Vinson & Elkins LLP. Chris was recognized by Islamic Finance News as a leading lawyer in Islamic Securitization & Structured Finance, 2009. He is a frequent speaker at Islamic finance conferences and has authored of a number articles on Islamic finance for legal journals and industry publications. Chris is a graduate of Tulane University and the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Islamic Banking and Insurance (London), where he earned a Post-Graduate Diploma.
Chris' legal practice focuses on international business transactions, with an emphasis on the global energy industry. His practice experience includes Islamic finance and securities offerings; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; project development; foreign direct investment and joint ventures; oil and gas contracts; and general natural resources, corporate law and finance matters. Chris regularly assists clients in the energy and financial industries in transactions and projects across multiple jurisdictions, including significant experience in the Far East, Southeast Asia, India, Australia, North America and the Middle East.
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Anthony Chan
Managing Partner
HAMMONDS |
Anthony Chan is managing partner of Hammonds, China. He is currently working on a number of Shariah compliant funding initiatives for Asian jurisdictions involving the use of musharaka and other Islamic financing structures.
Apart from banking and finance, Anthony has worked on numerous project finance, aircraft finance and foreign direct investment transactions in Mainland China, Middle East, Africa and elsewhere.
As a corporate/ investment lawyer, Anthony's team is very active on private equity and investment funds work and have been involved in transactions in a broad spectrum of industries, ranging from petrochemicals to oil and gas, renewable energy to real estate, and from manufacturing to media. Anthony has been highly involved in establishing investment funds by private placement or by listing on a Stock Exchange (for instance on the London Stock Exchange).
A native of Malaysia, assignments for more than 16 years. Anthony is currently Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong. |
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Sheikh Amirali B Nasir
Partner
NASIRS |
Amirali Nasir, JP, B.A. (Hons.) is a Solicitor, Notary Public, Founder and managing partner at Nasirs Solicitors, based in Hong Kong. Mr. Nasir has advised on many Islamic Finance transactions, and has presented lectures on Islamic Finance throughout East Asia. He is considered an authority in the region on Islamic Finance Law. Amirali has been a stalwart in the Hong Kong legal and public sector acting as the chairman of numerous committees for the Law Society of Hong Kong, as well as a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission. Mr Nasir was the past Chairman and Trustee of the Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong from 1991 – 2003 and on Islamic community Boards in Hong Kong and London. |
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