Speakers

(listed in alphabetical order)

Mr. Michael G. Aguinaldo is currently the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), only the second Chairperson since the establishment of the PCC in 2016. Prior to his appointment to the PCC, he was Chairperson of the Commission on Audit, the supreme audit institution of the Philippines, from 2015 to 2022, and was concurrently External Auditor of the World Health Organization, the Food & Agriculture Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. He was the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Office of the President of the Philippines from 2011 to 2015.

Before his foray into the public service, Mr. Aguinaldo worked as a law practitioner in the private sector from 1992 to 2011, including 17 years with the law firm Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & de los Angeles where he was a partner and member of the Executive Committee.

Mr. Aguinaldo obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1992 from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he became a member of the faculty from 1994 to 2015. He holds a Master of Laws degree with special concentration in International Economic Law from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Dave Anderson is a partner in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Antitrust & Competition Law team and is the founding and Managing Partner of the firm’s Brussels office. He is qualified to practice in Belgium (A-List), the United Kingdom and the United States. Mr. Anderson has practiced international competition and regulatory law for over 25 years. His practice focuses on EU and international aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restrictive practices, cartels and abuses of dominant positions. He also advises on EU regulatory law, the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, foreign direct investment and public affairs. He advises clients worldwide across a range of industry sectors and has specialist expertise in the technology, energy, transportation, mining/minerals, chemicals, agriculture and consumer goods sectors.

Mr. Anderson is also very active on the policy side of international antitrust. He has served as a non-governmental adviser to the International Bar Association and the European Commission on the work of the International Competition Network (ICN) since the ICN’s founding in 2001. He has also advised the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development and national competition agencies on competition law reform and agency capacity building in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America since 1998.

Mr. Anderson is Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Liège and a Senior Researcher (Competition Law) at the VUB/ Brussels School of Governance. Dave is also recognized by his clients and peers as a leading international competition lawyer in Global Competition Review, Chambers Global and Legal 500 EMEA.

Prof. Reiko Aoki is Commissioner of Japan Fair Trade Commission and former Executive Vice-President (International, IP and Gender Equality) at Kyushu University. She has conducted research on economics of patents, patent pools, standards, innovation and intergenerational political economy.

Prof. Aoki has been actively involved in science, technology and innovation policy as Executive Member of Council for Science and Technology Policy, Japanese Cabinet Office from 2009 to 2014. Previous appointments include Member of Science Council of Japan, Member of Industrial Structure Council, Intellectual Property Committee, its Patent System Subcommittee and its Expert Working Group, and Information and Communications Council (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication) and its subcommittees.

Prof. Aiko received Master of Science (Statistics) and PhD (Economics) from Stanford University. She has held positions at the Ohio State University, State University of New York Stony Brook, University of Auckland and Hitotsubashi University. She is Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, past President of Japan Law and Economics Association, and President-elect of Japanese Economic Association.

Mr. Guy Bradley, JP, is Chairman of John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Limited, Swire Pacific Limited, Swire Properties Limited and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited.

Before taking up his current role as Chairman, Mr. Bradley was the Chief Executive of Swire Properties, responsible for the Company’s overall management and strategic direction. He joined the Swire group in 1987 and has worked with the group in Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, Mainland China, Taiwan region and the Middle East.

Mr. Bradley is a Vice-President of The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Chamber’s Investment Committee. He serves as a member of the Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers and as a Special Counsellor to the Our Hong Kong Foundation. He is also a member of the Riding for the Disabled Association’s Voting Committee.

Mr. Bradley holds a Master’s degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from the University of Oxford. A Chartered Surveyor, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.

Mr. Mohamed Butt, MH, has led the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) since December 2017. He brought to the Council 30 plus years of senior management experience, leadership excellence as well as passion in driving technological applications. Under his leadership, HKPC has made great strides in supporting the local industry and SMEs to capitalise on the trends for intelligent manufacturing, new industrialisation, smart city and green living, FutureSkills and digital transformation, as well as leverage Government funding schemes for resource support to upgrade, with a view to developing Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology hub.

Mr. Butt has generous knowledge in infrastructure, industrial and consumer sectors. Prior to joining HKPC, he spearheaded large transformational projects, mostly featuring digital transformation and localization, in collaboration with private and public sectors. He had worked for General Electric (GE) for over two decades, where he held various senior management positions, including President and CEO of GE’s Transportation Business in the Asia Pacific region, and provided strategic leadership to expand the company’s business footprints with sterling results. Before such role, he also served as President and CEO of GE Lighting Asia and GE Security Asia respectively.

Mr Butt was brought up in Hong Kong and graduated from Winona State University, Minnesota in the United States with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He received his Master in Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Rasul Butt was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Competition Commission (Commission) in May 2021.

Mr. Butt joined the Commission in April 2015 as Executive Director (Corporate Services & Public Affairs), and was appointed to the position of Senior Executive Director in July 2016 overseeing the policy advisory, advocacy and corporate functions of the Commission.

Starting his career as a law lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia in the early 1990s, Mr. Butt left academia to take charge of the Compliance Department at the futures and options unit of Arab-Malaysian Banking Group. He returned to Hong Kong in 1999 and thereafter spent more than 16 years at the Urban Renewal Authority where his last position was General Manager (Corporate Planning). His main focus was formulating urban renewal policies and strategies which included Redevelopment of Industrial Building Pilot Scheme, Demand-led Redevelopment Project Pilot Scheme, Flat for Flat Scheme and Redevelopment Facilitating Services Scheme.

Mr. Butt obtained his Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, followed by Master of Laws (Public Law) from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn) and the Hong Kong Bar. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Construction Law and Arbitration from the University of Hong Kong, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Banking and Insurance from the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance, London where he is an Associate Fellow.

Mr. Butt has a special interest in the development of competition law regimes in Mainland China and the ASEAN region and regularly engages fellow enforcers and members of the academia in promoting competition law and policy.

Mr. Justin Chan was appointed Advisor to the Asia Pacific co-Chief Executives of HSBC in 2023.

Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Chan draws on 38 years of extensive experience in financial markets and risk management. In his current role, he advises HSBC’s leadership on strategic market development initiatives, collaborating closely with key industry stakeholders.

Prior to this, Mr. Chan was the Head of Markets and Securities Services, Greater China at HSBC, where he led global trading in Chinese securities, particularly focusing on the internationalisation of the Renminbi. His leadership was instrumental in advancing HSBC’s Greater China strategy and promoting Mainland China’s financial markets to international investors.

Since joining HSBC in 1986 in Hong Kong, Mr. Chan has held various responsibilities, including in corporate sales, money markets and interest rates and foreign exchange trading.

A Chartered Financial Analyst and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Mr. Chan holds influential positions within the industry. He is an Acting Chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks, an Executive Board Member and the Chairman of the Market Development Committee of the Treasury Markets Association in Hong Kong, an Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, and a non-executive director of Bank of Communications.

Prof. K C Chan, GBS, SBS, JP, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor to the Dean at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. He was appointed as Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from July 2007 to June 2017.

Prior to that, he was Dean of Business and Management in the HKUST. Before joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Prof. Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.

Prof. Chan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialises in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency, and has published numerous articles on these topics.

Prof. Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, Director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and Member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.

Mr. Ronald Chan founded Chartwell Capital in 2007, and currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer, spearheading the firm’s investment strategy and chairing the Investment Committee.

Mr. Chan holds positions as a board member of the Financial Services Development Council of Hong Kong, a committee member of the Listing Committee and the Public Shareholders Group at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hong Kong Ferry Holdings, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited, and Powerlong Commercial Management Holdings. Previously, he served as a Listing Committee member of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong from 2016 to 2022.

In addition to his professional roles, Mr. Chan is a frequent contributor to the South China Morning Post. He is also recognized as an author, having written two books, Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Top Business Leaders and The Value Investors: Lessons from the World’s Top Fund Managers.

Mr. Chan graduated from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Accounting. He is actively involved in his alma mater as the Vice President of the university’s Pan-Asia Alumni Committee. Furthermore, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at Malvern College in Hong Kong and Worcester Academy in Massachusetts, United States.

Mr. Samuel Chan, BBS, JP, was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1989 and has been a barrister in private practice since then. He has been appointed to many advisory and statutory bodies over the years. He was former Vice-Chairman of the Consumer Council, Non-Executive Director of the Insurance Authority, Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Chairman of the Consumer Legal Action Fund Management Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Town Planning Appeal Board. Currently, he also serves as Member of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and Member of the Working Group on Class Actions.

Mr. Chan was appointed as Member of the Hong Kong Competition Commission (Commission) in 2016 and was elected as Chairperson of its Enforcement Committee in 2019. He was appointed as Chairman of the Commission in 2020.

In 2020, Mr. Chan was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star in recognition of his significant contribution to the promotion of consumer interests in Hong Kong.

Mr. Chan is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and Panel Arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.

Mr. Chen Leiming is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Ant International. He leads the international sustainability initiatives and the implementation of the sustainable development strategy of Ant International. He is also responsible for International Public Policy and Government Affairs of Ant International. Mr. Chen has been a Senior Vice President of Ant Group since March 2016 and served as Ant Group’s General Counsel from March 2016 to May 2020. In his day-to-day responsibilities, Mr. Chen undertakes a broad range of government and regulatory engagements in connection with Ant International’s business activities globally.

Prior to joining Ant Group, Mr. Chen was a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a New York-based international law firm where he led the China practice and worked on a variety of equity and debt offerings. He was also responsible for mergers and acquisitions involving PRC companies, including his lead US counsel role in advising Alibaba Group in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters. Mr. Chen is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and is a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong. Mr. Chen obtained a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Benoît Coeuré is President of the Autorité de la concurrence since January 2022. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique. He also holds a Master of Advanced Studies in economic analysis and policy and a degree in Japanese.

Mr. Coeuré started his career at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies before joining the Directorate General of the Treasury as economic advisor to the Director. He was Deputy Director General of the Treasury between 2009 and 2011 and led the foreign trade support policy and general reflection on France’s economic policy as Chief Economist.

As a member of the Executive Board and of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank from 2012 to 2018, he was responsible for market transactions, market infrastructures supervision and European and International relations.

He chaired the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements for six years where he focused on the digitisation of payment systems, the rise of crypto assets and the emergence of tech giants in financial services.

In 2019, Mr. Coeuré took over as head of the innovation division of the Bank for International Settlements.

Mr. Ian Forrester has been an advocate, judge and academic teacher in the field of European law, particularly competition, customs, dumping, pharmaceuticals, sport, the precautionary principle, and human rights. His writings have been published in English, French, Japanese, Serbian and Spanish. He from 2015 to 2020 served as the judge from the United Kingdom on the General Court of the European Union. He sat on about 230 cases touching trademarks, competition, terrorist asset freezes, agricultural subsidies, state aids, public procurement, and civil service disputes.

When a practising lawyer he participated in cases before courts or competition authorities or arbitral bodies in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Japan, Kosovo, Serbia and United States as well as the European institutions in Brussels and the three EU courts in Luxembourg. He was a member of the Bars of Scotland, New York, England and Brussels. He argued cases on behalf of the BBC, Canon, Dupont, European Commission, Microsoft, Pfizer Animal Health, Government of Gibraltar, UEFA, as well as several private individuals and institutions and sporting bodies. He was also involved in several cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

After his departure from the General Court of the European Union in 2022, Mr. Forrester has returned to legal practice as advocate, expert witness, European law, or as arbitrator/ mediator.

Associate Prof. Han Wei is a Member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission of the State Council of China. He is Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Competition Research Center of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Associate Prof. Han received his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Over the past few years, he has published three monographs on competition law, namely Study of Merger Remedies (China Law Press, 2013), The Evolution of Anti-monopoly Law towards the Intelligence Era (China Law Press, 2019) and Merger Control in Digital Economy (China Law Press, 2023). He was the Editor in Chief for six books, including Competition Policy of OECD, New Antitrust Rules of US and EU, Competition Policy of WIPO, Competition Policy in Digital Market, Competition Policy of ICN, and Sustainable Development and Competition Policy (all published by China Law Press). He also co-authored Competition Law in China (Kluwer Law International, 2018) and more than 80 papers on various competition law issues. Prof. Han was a recipient of the Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award in 2020.

Ms. Silke Hossenfelder, economist, has started working with the Bundeskartellamt in 1992 and is today heading the General Policy Division of the German Competition Authority, advising the Decision Divisions, representing the Bundeskartellamt within international organizations and being involved in competition law (and related) reforms at national and European level.

Ms. Hossenfelder has chaired several Decision Divisions within the Bundeskartellamt for over 10 years, where she handled a large variety of competition cases. Her dedication to international cooperation is based on participating in setting up the European Competition Network and joining the Netherlands Competition Authority during its first two years of activity. She regularly speaks at international conferences on competition issues and the experiences of Bundeskartellamt.

Dr. and Prof. Huang Yong is a Member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission of the State Council of China. He is Executive President of Institute in Rule of Law in Foreign-related Affairs of the University of International Business & Economics (UIBE), Director of the UIBE Competition Law Centre and a law professor.

Prof. Huang has received the honor of being a Government Special Allowance Expert from the State Council, and he has been appointed as Researcher of Center for Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Supreme People’s Court, and as a Hearing Officer by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. He also serves as Expert of the State Administration of Market Regulation. Moreover, Prof. Huang was elected to serve as Member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress, in the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress, and Deputy Director of the Finance and Economics Committee. Prof. Huang is also Central Committee Member of the China Democratic Founding Association.

On 29 April 2021, Prof. Huang was invited to deliver the 23^rd Specific Lecture of the Standing Committee of the 13^th National People’s Congress. Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, presided over the lecture.

Prof. Frédéric Jenny holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1975), a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966). He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris, Chairman of the OECD Global Forum on Competition, Senior Fellow of the GW Competition and Innovation Lab at The George Washington University.

He was previously Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee (1994-2024), Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the UK (2007-2014), Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the World Trade Organisation Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003).

Prof. Jenny was Visiting Professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the US (1978), Keio University Department of Economics in Japan (1984), University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991), University College London Law School (2005-2010), and Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School (2014, 2017 and 2022), and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program, University of Melbourne (2016-2018).

Prof. Jenny has written extensively about trade, competition and economic development and has served as an adviser to many developing countries on competition and trade issues.

Mr. Winston Kiang was responsible for competition matters in Asia Pacific at Intel Corporation until he retired in 2023. He currently serves as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the Hong Kong Competition Commission, among other activities.

At Intel, Mr. Kiang handled a broad range of competition law matters including merger reviews, dawn raids, competition investigations, follow-on litigation, and public advocacy. He is experienced in competition law compliance, having designed internal compliance audits and training programs, evaluated compliance tools, and developed compliance strategies. He actively promoted competition law education within the company and authored a widely-distributed monthly “Antitrust Updates from Asia Pacific” newsletter for many years. The newsletter provided in-depth analyses and updates to Intel employees about competition law developments, thereby fostering greater legal acumen and compliance internally.

Mr. Kiang is intimately familiar with the technology industry after managing a team of business attorneys supporting Intel’s sales and marketing group across Asia Pacific (including China) and as General Counsel of Intel Japan. In addition to competition law, he worked on a number of high-value strategic patent licenses and other intellectual property matters. Before joining Intel, he was a partner at Davis LLP (now DLA Piper).

Throughout his career, Mr. Kiang advocated robust, effective, and clear enforcement of competition law. To that end, he closely worked with like-minded organizations and fellow travelers to submit white papers, legal journal articles, newspaper editorials, and reports about competition law developments. He supports sharing best practices within the competition law community in order to advance awareness, compliance, and enforcement in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr. Kiang is a member of the law societies and bar associations of Hong Kong, California, British Columbia, England and Wales. He studied at the University of British Columbia (B.Comm / JD) and University of Cambridge (LLM). He speaks Japanese and Chinese (Cantonese and conversational Mandarin).

Mr. Alvin Koh is Chief Executive, Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore.

Mr. Koh has been a Government lawyer in the Singapore Public Service for over 20 years, where he started out as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court. He has most recently served in various capacities such as the Chief Legal Officer at the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Manpower, and the national tax authority, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.

Mr. Koh has also served in the Attorney-General’s Chambers as a Deputy Senior State Counsel and a Deputy Public Prosecutor, where he specialised in white collar and major crimes. He was also a Judicial Officer in the State Courts where he presided over Penal Code offences, civil disputes and also tribunal matters.

Mr. Koh has extensive experience in government ranging from intellectual property, tax law, labour relations and procurement. He sits on the Ministry of Law’s Copyright Tribunal and is also a Lien Fellow with the Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Centre for Public Administration.

Mr. Fred LAM, GBS, JP, is Chairman of the Board of Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK), a statutory corporation responsible for the development and operation of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). He was Chief Executive Officer of AAHK from 2014 till June 2024 when he was appointed Chairman. Under his leadership, HKIA has expanded into a Three-runway System (3RS), which provides the airport with the capacity to handle 120 million passengers and 10 million tonnes of cargo a year, further securing its position as one of the largest and most important global aviation hubs. Mr. Lam’s vision is to build on the foundation of HKIA as a major aviation hub and transform it into an economic growth engine and a new landmark for Hong Kong, developing HKIA from a “city airport” into an “Airport City”.

Before joining AAHK, Mr. Lam was the Executive Director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council. He is a seasoned management professional with extensive experience in leading public corporations. Mr. Lam was named “Director of the Year” by the Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2007. In 2019, he received the “Executive Award” of the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards and was elected a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. In 2022, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in recognition of his exemplary contribution to the development of HKIA and the aviation industry.

Mr. Justice Godfrey Lam read law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He obtained an LLM (in Asian and Comparative Law) from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the PCLL from the University of Hong Kong. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1993 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2008. Whilst at the Bar he had served as a member of the Law Reform Commission and the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform of Hong Kong.

Mr. Justice Lam was in private practice between 1994 and 2012, before being appointed as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong in January 2013 and President of the Competition Tribunal of Hong Kong in August 2013. He stepped down from the Competition Tribunal upon his appointment as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong in June 2021.

Dr. Jack Lau is now the President of the 91.27-hectare Qatar Science and Technology Park which is situated in the Education City under the leadership of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser.

He first obtained his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, he completed his doctorate study in Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and became its first PhD graduate. He then continued his post-doctoral research at Stanford University. In 1998, he returned to the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of HKUST and received his tenure there.

Dr. Lau has been a serial entrepreneur. He was the Founder and CEO of Perception Digital which eventually went public in Hong Kong. He has also served on a number of publicly listed boards on both NASDAQ and Hong Kong. He completed his Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program in 2010.

Dr. Lau is a recipient of the 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons in Hong Kong (2000), Young Industrialist Award (2005), and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 China award. In 2010, he was bestowed an Honorary Fellowship at the HKUST.

Dr. Lau also served as a member of a number of committees in Hong Kong, such as the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the Innovation and Technology Fund Advisory Committee, Enterprise Support Scheme Assessment Panel and the Innovation Technology Venture Fund Panel.

Prof. Lin Ping is Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Economics at Shandong University. His research interests are mainly centered in industrial economics, competition policy and antitrust. He has published in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Management World, China Economic Quarterly and China Industry Economics, which have been cited for over 6500 times in Google Scholar. He was named Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (2021, 2022, 2023).

Prof. Lin is now Chief Investigator for Major Project “Antitrust Theory and Policy Research in the Digital Economy” supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2022 to 2026, working with about 50 economists from five leading universities in China (Peking University, Fudan University, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, and Shandong University).

Prof. Lin has been consultants to the Asian Development Bank, the Hong Kong Competition Commission, and the State Administration for Market Regulation, among others.

Prof. Christine Loh, SBS, JP, OBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, is Chief Development Strategist, Institute for the Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was Under Secretary for the Environment in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (2012-2017), Special Consultant to the Chief Executive on the mainland’s ecological civilization policy (2019-2020), and a Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (1992-1997 and 1998-2020). Prof. Loh has been active in public policy and politics since the 1980s. She founded and was the CEO of the non-profit think tank, Civic Exchange (2000-2012), and helped to establish several non-profit organizations in Hong Kong related to the environment, equal opportunity, and arts and culture.

Prof. Loh is currently a board member of Global Maritime Forum, New Forests Pty Limited, Towngas Smart Energy Company Limited, and is Asia Society’s Scholar in Residence (2023-2024). She is also a Steering Committee Member of the United Nations International Organization for Migration’s new Climate Mobility Innovation Lab. She is a published author of many academic and popular works. Prof. Loh is a lawyer by training, and a commodities trader by profession. She received her legal training in England and received honorary degrees of Doctor of Law from the University of Hull and Doctor of Science from the University of Exeter.

Dr. Ma Jun has long been committed to the promotion of sustainable development and green finance, and has been widely influential both domestically and internationally. In China, Dr. Ma serves as Chairman of Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking, President of Institute of Finance and Sustainability, Member of the National Expert Committee on Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China, Director of the China Environmental Protection Foundation, and Special Advisor to the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Green Belt and Road Initiative Center.

In Hong Kong, Dr. Ma is Chairman and President of Hong Kong Green Finance Association, Chairman of Sprinkles Charity Foundation, Member of the Hong Kong Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development, and Member of the Chief Executive’s Policy Unit Expert Group.

Internationally, Dr. Ma served as Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road, and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Finance Standards Working Group of International Platform on Sustainable Finance, and Chairman of Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment.

Over the past three decades, Dr. Ma has served as Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Chief Economist of the Research Bureau of the PBoC, Managing Director and Chief Economist of the Greater China Region of Deutsche Bank (Hong Kong), as well as in professional positions at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, among others.

Dr. Mahmoud Momtaz is currently Chairman of the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) since January 2021. Since assuming his role, he leads the Authority’s efforts to ensure the freedom of competition and create an attractive competitive environment for investment, fostering fair and competitive markets in Egypt. He has also contributed to the formulation of Egypt’s strategy for competitive neutrality and participated in the State Ownership Policy.

Dr. Momtaz also serves as Commissioner and Chairman of the Determination Committee as well as the Technical and Strategy Committee at the COMESA Competition Commission. In addition, Dr. Momtaz plays a pivotal role as the Chair of the African Heads of Competition Authorities Dialogue, where he works to enhance cooperation and coordination in policies among competition authorities in Africa.

Dr. Momtaz is chairing the Advisory Board of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Competition Training Center for Middle East and Africa.

On the Arab front, Dr. Momtaz contributed to the establishment of the Arab Competition Network and was elected as its first president, where he led regional initiatives to harmonize competition laws and practices in the region.

Dr. Momtaz is also a member of the boards of directors of the Gas Regulatory Authority, the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, and the Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency, in addition to the Advisory Committee on Anti-dumping.

Before assuming his role at ECA, Dr. Momtaz worked as a Private Sector Development Specialist at the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C., where he was responsible for several competition policy projects and supporting private sector development in the MENA region and Southeast Asia. Furthermore, he actively participated in the development of competition laws and conducted multiple training sessions for several countries in the Middle East.

On the academic front, Dr. Momtaz serves as a board member at the Faculty of Law, the British University in Egypt, and works as a lecturer of Competition Law and Economics. He holds a PhD in Competition Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg in Germany, a Bachelor of Laws from Cairo University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the German University in Cairo.

Dr. Wan Khatina Nawawi is currently the Managing Director of EconWorks Advisory, Malaysia’s first boutique advisory firm specializing in competition and international economics. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School and an Advisor to the Tech for Good Institute.

Dr. Nawawi has over thirty years of experience working in various organizations in Malaysia, including the Malaysian Aviation Commission, Khazanah Research Institute, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the National Economic Action Council, and the SG Research Group (part of the Société-Generale Banking Group), among others. She is a recognized expert in competition policy, law and economics, having been appointed as advisor to competition and sector regulatory authorities in Malaysia and the Philippines.

Dr. Nawawi is a passionate learner and holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, and King’s College London where she earned her PhD in Competition Law.

Justice Dr. Shahnaz Sulaiman was appointed as a Judicial Commissioner on 3 May 2019. On 27 April 2022, Her Ladyship was appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Malaysia.

Prior to Her Ladyship’s appointment to the bench, Her Ladyship was an Associate Director at the Malaysian Aviation Commission where Her Ladyship was involved in the drafting of competition guidelines. Earlier, Her Ladyship had served the Attorney General’s Chambers Malaysia for 22 years in various capacities. Preceding Her Ladyship’s service at the Attorney General’s Chambers, Her Ladyship practiced at the Kuala Lumpur law firm of Kadir, Tan and Ramli.

Her Ladyship is a graduate from University Teknologi MARA. She obtained her LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London under a British Chevening Scholarship. Her Ladyship’s PhD was obtained from City Law School, University of London. Her Ladyship was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1996.

Her Ladyship was appointed the President of the Competition Appeals Tribunal by the Prime Minister from 15 April 2023 to 14 April 2026. Her Ladyship is a Committee member of the Inns of Court Malaysia and of the Publication Committee of the Journal of the Malaysian Judiciary.

Mr. Gregory Van is Chief Executive Officer of Endowus, Asia’s leading digital wealth platform. Endowus’ mission is to democratise wealth management for all and empower everyone to invest better to live easier today, and better tomorrow. As CEO, Mr. Van is responsible for driving the company’s growth and strategic execution. He began his career in investment banking at UBS, advising and fundraising for private equity and venture capital firms in the Asia Pacific region. He then joined Grab in its early days and was part of the pioneer team that launched the firm’s digital payments services across Southeast Asia.

Today, Mr. Van is leveraging his unique expertise at the intersection of finance and technology to empower all investors with greater access to expert advice and institutional-quality products at low, fair fees – leveraging technology to do this at scale. He believes that the biggest asset an investor has is time, and is singularly focused on helping clients efficiently maximise their time to achieve financial wellness. An alignment of incentives by being fee-only, coupled with personalising and automating the wealth management process, provides every investor with the highest probability of success in reaching their wealth and life goals.

Mr. Van also sits on the World Economic Forum Global Retail Investor steering committee.

Prof. Wang Xianlin is a Member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission of the State Council of China. He is a chair professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and Director of Center for Competition Law and Policy of SJTU. He is also Vice President of Economic Law Association of China Law Society.

Prof. Wang earned his bachelor’s degree of law from Anhui University (1987), master’s degree of law from China University of Political Science and Law (1990), PhD in law from Renmin University of China (2001). He conducted his postdoctoral research in Wuhan University (2002-2004). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the George Washington University Law School (2007-2008). He was a senior visiting fellow in Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (2017-2018).

His research focuses on competition law and intellectual property law, especially the interface between the two areas. He has authored and co-authored 20 books, has published more than 200 articles. His representative works include Competition Law (Renmin University of China Press, 2023, 4^th edition), Intellectual Property and Anti-Monopoly Law: Abusing Intellectual Property Rights from the Perspective of Competition Law (Law Press, 2020, 3^rd edition), and WTO Competition Policy and China’s Anti-Monopoly Legislation (Peking University Press, 2005).

Mr. Arthur Yuen, JP, is in charge of the full range of banking policy, supervision, conduct, and enforcement issues. He joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in 1996 as Head of Administration and has since taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000. He took up the position as Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008. He was appointed to his present position on 1 January 2010.

Speakers

Michael G. AGUINALDO

Dave ANDERSON

Reiko AOKI

Guy BRADLEY

Mohamed BUTT

Rasul BUTT

Justin CHAN

K C CHAN

Ronald CHAN

Samuel CHAN

CHEN Leiming

Benoît COEURÉ

Ian FORRESTER

HAN Wei

Silke HOSSENFELDER

HUANG Yong

Frédéric JENNY

Winston KIANG

Alvin KOH

Fred LAM

Godfrey LAM

Jack LAU

LIN Ping

Christine LOH

MA Jun

Mahmoud MOMTAZ

Wan Khatina NAWAWI

Shahnaz SULAIMAN

Gregory VAN

WANG Xianlin

Arthur YUEN