Dr. Kanie Siu, Chief Executive Officer, DBA, MBA, MSSDS

Dr. Kanie Siu is Plan International’s Chief Executive Officer for the Hong Kong office. She joined Plan International since January 2015.

Kanie is an experienced fundraiser, marketer and administrator. She spent 10 years working in marketing and public relations across a number of commercial industries before joining Oxfam Hong Kong (OHK) in 1998, where she helped pioneer the application of those skills to the non-governmental organisation sector. She quickly rose through the ranks to become the agency’s Hong Kong Unit Director in 2011 and Director of Fundraising and Communications in 2013.  She was responsible for fundraising, communications and branding strategies in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China.

While working in OHK, Kanie led the team to develop various fundraising strategies with innovative mindset, lay the groundwork of monthly donation and establish different fundraising projects and channels.  All these works brought surging number of donors to OHK so that they could have more resources to implement poverty alleviation initiatives.  Kanie was also actively involved in expanding the market of OHK.  She launched fundraising and education projects in Macau successfully and did research to promote their work in Taiwan.

In 2015, she was appointed CEO of Plan International Hong Kong, one of the leading international development organizations with 80 years of history that is committed to fulfilling children’s rights and ending poverty worldwide.  With Kanie’s leadership and profound experiences in business and charity sector, scope of works of Plan International Hong Kong was greatly expanded and diversified with doubled charity income in just 5 years. Kanie also puts lots of effort in enhancing local children’s right.  She takes the lead role to promote Child Safeguarding Policy, Child Participatory Community Development and prevention of child abuse.  In the long run, Kanie looks forward to building Hong Kong a Child Safeguarding City, where provides a safe environment for healthy growth of every child and youth, through persevering effort of stakeholders from different sectors. To raise understanding and concern of Hong Kong youths towards girls’ right in developing countries, she also led the team to launch the Youth Conference that holds annually.

Kanie has made significant contributions in bringing proven business administration and marketing practices to fundraising work in Hong Kong. She has also conducted fundraising trainings for various NGOs in both Hong Kong and mainland China and sharing of development issues at universities. With her contribution to the philanthropy in both Hong Kong and Mainland China, Kanie has been awarded as one of the awardees in the Second Global Outstanding Young Leader Award organised by YaZhou Zhoukan in 2017. In 2022, Kanie was selected as one of the Global Outstanding Chinese Community Leaders of Yazhou Zhoukan and World Federation of Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization.

June Leung, Board Chair

June Leung obtained her B.A. degree in Translation at the University of Hong Kong and a Doctorate of Business Administration conferred by European University. She is the founder and chairperson of Beacon Group, a member of BEXCELLENT Group Holdings Limited. With 25-year experience of teaching English as a foreign language, Miss Leung has authored different popular academic publications. Her devotion to raising and maintaining the standard of practitioners in the private tutorial sector at a professional level has led her to become a guest speaker in various public seminars, including the “China Education Symposium 2015 Annual Conference” organised by Harvard University. Miss Leung founded Beacon Uprising under Beacon Fund in 2012, providing additional financial assistance to students from Comprehensive Social Security Assistance and low-income families to enrol in tutorial courses. Over 10,000 students have been benefitted. In 2019, she founded the “Uplift Educational Charity Foundation”, a non-profit charity institution, which aims to provide motivation for the youth of Hong Kong and stimulate their learning ability, creativity and positive thinking. In recent years, June has actively participated in charity events and encourages people around her to join the events. She is passionate about helping people in need.

Andrew Weir, MBE, JP

Andrew is the Regional Senior Partner of KPMG in Hong Kong and Vice Chairman of KPMG China. He has over 25 years’ experience servicing listed companies, public bodies,investment funds and MNCs in Hong Kong, China, Asia and internationally. He chairs the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and sits on the advisory panels of the Securities Institute, Hong Kong Investor Relations Association and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Andrew was appointed by the HKSAR Government as a council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). He sits on the Belt and Road Committee and chairs the International Working Group and the Global Belt and Road Forum. He was also appointed as a director of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) and sits on the FSDC Policy Research Committee.

He has had a number of global and regional roles with KPMG. He is currently the Global Chairman of Asset Management, Real Estate and Construction, and ASPAC Chairman of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, which also includes the real estate, hospitality and transport sectors. He is also in the global leadership team of KPMG’s Belt & Road Centre of Excellence.

Andrew is Chairman of Pacific Basin Economic Council and Deputy Chairman of UNESCAP on financial services. He was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2017 for his contribution to trade and investment links between Hong Kong and the UK.

LO Bing Chung (BC) 

BC is the founder of Brothers and Sisters in Christ Foundation in Hong Kong and has more than 40 years of experience in the media and public relations professions.

Before his retirement in June 2017, he had held various senior corporate communications and public affairs roles in sizeable organisations including Link REIT, Hong Kong Disneyland, Coca-Cola China, and Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Trained as a journalist, BC worked for several established Hong Kong print media organisations including the Ming Pao and Sing Tao dailies before joining Ogilvy Public Relations in 1983 as a consultant. Setting up his own company in 2001, he advised a number of high-profile organisations on relations with China.

BC is a strong believer in mentoring Hong Kong’s future generation of corporate communications professionals. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for China Business, the University of Hong Kong. He also taught public relations courses at the graduate school of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

BC was a Director of the China International Public Relations Association. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, a Life Member of the International Association of Business Communicators, and a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Chapter of the International Public Relations Association.

Dr. Darwin Chen, SBS

Darwin Chen’s career includes 32 years’ service in the Hong Kong Government, during which he served as Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing, Deputy Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Commissioner of Labour and Director of Buildings and Lands. He was former Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and currently serves as President Emeritus and Senior Advisor of the UNESCO Hong Kong Association. He serves on the board of many charitable organisations in Hong Kong and Mainland China as well as international non-profit bodies. He is also Honorary President of the Hong Kong Children’s Choir and Honorary Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Hong Kong.

Ralph Szeto

Ralph is a Co-founder of CMRS Group, has 30 years’ working experience in traditional and digital agencies in global and Asia Pacific regions. In May 2021, he joined a fintech and martech start-up called On-Us.

He is also the Honorary Chairman of AIM and became the first batch of Certified Digital Marketer (CDM) endorsed by AIM. 

Ralph actively participates in various consulting bodies of HKSAR Government. He also joined various social welfare organizations; he is the board member of 3 NGOs – Plan International Hong Kong, Ocean Park Conservation Foundations and Social Career. 

Besides, Ralph was invited by various local and overseas universities, trade and social welfare organizations as a guest speaker, part-time lecturer and judge. In December 2018, Ralph has received “The Distinguished Communication Alumni Award” from his alma mater, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Sandra Tsang Kit Man, JP

Dr. Sandra Tsang, JP, retired from Associate Professorship of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong. She is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society and the Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association, and a Registered Social Worker. Her research, publications and media profile focus on parent education, children with special educational needs, children and youth development and social services development. She serves on the Commission on Children after completing her membership on the Nursing Council, Social Welfare Advisory Committee and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She is also the Chairperson of the Professional Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Clinical Psychologists, and Board Director and advisor to some NGOs.

Sylvene Fong

Sylvene is the Audit Partner in KPMG Hong Kong. She has over 20 years of experiences serving listed companies and multi-national corporations in Hong Kong, China, Asia and internationally in the Consumer and Industrial Markets sector.

She has broad experiences in the audit of companies listed in Hong Kong and extensive experiences in assisting Hong Kong and PRC enterprises to raise funds in the stock exchanges. Sylvene was also previously the Member of Investigation Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She has been involved in audit for several NGOs.

Sylvene was the Head of Private Enterprises sector in KPMG Hong Kong which specialises in providing advice to private enterprises, family offices and private clients. She was also the Regional People Partner (HK) who drove firm-wide initiatives related to people engagement. She has been committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace for KPMG Hong Kong.