Leadership

Commission officers

Chair
Victor Chu, Chair, The First Eastern Investment Group (Hong Kong) 

Victor Chu was born in Canton, China and came to Hong Kong at the age of four.  He received his early education in Hong Kong and England, and took his law degree at University College, London. 

Mr. Chu is the Chairman of First Eastern Investment Group, a leading direct investment firm focusing on China. He is also Chairman of First Eastern Investment Bank Limited and FE Securities Limited.

Victor Chu has served as Director and Council Member of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Member of the Hong Kong Takeovers and Mergers Panel, Advisory Committee Member of the Securities and Futures Commission, and part-time member of Hong Kong Government’s Central Policy Unit.  Mr. Chu is currently a Foundation Board Member of the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the Forum’s International Business Council.  He is also an Executive Board Member of the International Chamber of Commerce and chairs the ICC Commission on Financial Services and Insurance. 

Mr. Chu is admitted to practise law in England and Hong Kong.  Since 1982 he has practised in the field of corporate, commercial and securities laws, with special emphasis on China and regional investment transactions.  He served as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Bar Association (IBA) from 1995 to 2000.

Victor Chu is a Trustee of the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Brussels and WWF Hong Kong.  He is a member of the Governing Council of University College London, Dean’s Council of the Kennedy School at Harvard and the Board of the Foreign Affairs University of China.  Mr. Chu’s other civic associations include service on the advisory bodies of Asia House, Asia Foundation, Beijing Music Festival Foundation and the East Asia Institute of Cambridge University.
 
Vice-Chairs
Charles P. Heeter, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, (US), click here for a biography
Güler Manisali Darman, Principal, GMD Global Advisors Ltd. (Turkey), click here for a biography

Commission Secretary
Thierry Sénéchal