Lunch with Our Leaders

PoD Monthly Luncheon

How HK as an IFC is important to both One Country and Two Systems

• Date:6 June 2023 (Tue)
  
• Time: 12:30-14:30
• Venue:The Chariot Club – 4/F., Melbourne Plaza, 33 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong
  
• Speaker: Mr Laurence Li, SC, JP, Chairman of Financial Services Development Council

Speaker:

Mr Laurence Li, SC is the Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). The FSDC is an advisory body to the HKSAR Government on all matters relating to the development of Hong Kong as an international financial centre. It engages the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development.

Mr Li’s profession is a practicing barrister. He focuses on banking, commercial, company, and securities law. Prior to being called to the Hong Kong Bar, he served in several positions within the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong and, before that, worked in a law firm in New York.

Mr Li is a Judge of the International Court and Regulatory Tribunal in Doha, Qatar. He is also a Fellow of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at The University of Hong Kong, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Fee:

This luncheon will be conducted in English.