37 Hong Kong chief executives

Alejandro Nicolas Aguzin is an Argentinian banker. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited (HKEX). Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive Officer of International Private Bank at J.P Morgan Chase.

Norman Chan Tak-Lam, GBS, JP, is a Hong Kong banker, treasury official, and civil servant. Chan was Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority from 2009 to 2019. He previously served as Director of the Office of the Chief Executive of the HKSAR and Regional Vice-Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank.

Ronnie Chan Chi-chung is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman.

Linus Cheung Wing Lam, JP was the chairman of Asia Television in 2008-2009, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and Executive Director of Cable & Wireless plc in the United Kingdom in 1994-2000, following the merger of Cable & Wireless HKT with PCCW Limited (PCCW) in 2000, Linus served as the Deputy Chairman of PCCW until 2004. Prior to joining HKT, Linus spent 23 years at Cathay Pacific, before departing as Deputy Managing Director. Linus then served on the board of China Unicom since 2004 and HKR International since 2006.

Sir Chung-kong Chow, FREng, FCGI, FIChemE, also known as Chow Chung-kong and C.K. Chow, is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, and the chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which owns the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Raymond Chow Man-wai, was a Hong Kong film producer, and presenter. He was responsible for successfully launching martial arts and the Hong Kong cinema onto the international stage. As the founder of Golden Harvest, he produced some of the biggest stars of the martial arts film genre, including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jimmy Wang Yu and Tsui Hark.

Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee is a former Hong Kong television executive and politician. She was a member of the Legislative Council for nearly three decades, and was also a member of the Executive Council. She is honorary chairwoman of the Liberal Party, having formerly been its chairwoman.

Ken Chu Hong Kong, is the chairman and CEO for Mission Hills Group.

Stanley Hudson Dodwell, CBE was a British businessperson and politician who was active in Hong Kong. He served as the chairman of Dodwell & Co. and member of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council of Hong Kong.

George McDonald Goldsack was a British businessman in China and Hong Kong. He was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1960 to 61.

Hari Naroomal Harilela, was a Hong Kong Indian businessman, hotelier and philanthropist and the founder and chairman of the Harilela Group. The group runs businesses ranging from hotel and real estate investment to import and export trading. He was often dubbed the richest Indian in Hong Kong.

Stanley Ho Hung-sun was a Hong Kong-Macau billionaire businessman. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman, which was later sinicized to 何 (Ho). He was of Dutch-Jewish, English and Chinese ancestry. He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa.

James Johnstone Keswick (1845–1914) was a Scottish businessman in China and Hong Kong. He was the tai-pan of the Jardine Matheson & Co..

William Keswick was a British Conservative politician and businessman, patriarch of the Keswick family, an influential shipping family in Hong Kong associated with Jardine Matheson Holdings.

Dr. William Charles Goddard Knowles, CBE, MA, LLD, JP was a British businessman in Hong Kong. He was general manager of the Butterfield and Swire, chairman of the Cathay Pacific Airways, member of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.

Raymond Kwok Ping Luen JP is the chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He is the chairman of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd. and SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Limited. He is the youngest son of Kwok Tak Seng, and the youngest brother of Walter Kwok, and Thomas Kwok.

Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong is a Hong Kong billionaire, and the former joint chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He received a five-year prison sentence for bribery in 2014.

Lai Chee-ying, also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and activist. He founded Giordano, an Asian clothing retailer, Next Digital, a Hong Kong-listed media company, and the popular newspaper Apple Daily. He is one of the main contributors to the pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party. Although he is known as a Hong Kong political figure, he has been a UK national since 1996. Lai is also an art collector.

Lee Shau-kee GBM is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is a real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development, a property conglomerate with interests in property, hotels, restaurants and internet services. In 2019, aged 91, Lee stepped down as chairman and managing director of the company, in favour of two of his sons, Peter and Martin Lee. He retains a role as an executive director.

Antony Leung Kam-chung GBS OBE JP is a businessman who served as Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), from 29 May 2001 until his resignation on 16 July 2003.

Canny Leung Chi-Shan is a Hong Kong songwriter and author.

Charles Li Xiaojia, is a Chinese banker. He was the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) from 2010 to 2021.

Sir David Kwok-po Li GBM GBS OBE JP is a British-Hong Kong banker and politician. He is the current Executive Chairman of the Bank of East Asia, and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Executive Council of Hong Kong.

Steven Lo Kit-Sing is a Hong Kong and Macanese businessman, investor, filmmaker, and philanthropist.

Vincent Lo Hong-shui, GBM, GBS, JP is the chairman of Hong Kong-based Shui On Group, a building-materials and construction firm. He graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1969. Upon returning to Hong Kong, started business with the sum of HK$100,000 (US$16,700) borrowed from his father, a Hong Kong property tycoon.

Lui Che Woo, GBM, MBE, JP (Chinese: 呂志和; Sidney Lau: Lui5 Ji3 Woh6) (born 9 August 1929, Jiangmen, China) is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is a member of the standing committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Jiangmen, People's Republic of China, and is a Hong Kong gambling magnate, founder and chairman of listed firms Galaxy Entertainment Group and K. Wah International Holdings Ltd. As of June 2021, he had an estimated net worth of US$19.0 billion and ranked the fourth richest man in Hong Kong according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Yat Siu is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and angel investor who was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. He worked at Atari. He founded an internet provider in Hong Kong. He is the CEO and Founder of the game-company Outblaze and co-founder of Animoca and Animoca Brands and has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies in Hong Kong. In 2009 he sold a part of his business to IBM's Lotus Software Division which opened its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong with the assets it acquired from Outblaze. Animoca Brands was worth a billion dollars in its last funding round.

Jack So Chak-kwong, GBM, GBS, OBE, JP is the chairman of the Board of Airport Authority Hong Kong from June 2015. He is a former chairman and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), former chairman and Chief Executive of the MTR Corporation, and former Deputy chairman and Group managing director of PCCW.

James E. "Jim" Thompson, GBS is an American businessman who is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Crown Worldwide Group.

Michael Tien Puk-sun is a former member of Tsuen Wan District Council, having lost his seat in 2019 following a rout of pro-Beijing candidates amidst the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. He founded the G2000 clothing retail chain and is a former chairman of the board of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC). He was formerly a member of the Liberal Party, which was led by his elder brother, James Tien, and a member of the New People's Party.

Peter Wong Tung-shun, JP retires as CEO of HSBC Asia Pacific and becomes non-executive chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, effective 7 June 2021. He holds a BComm degree from the University of Calgary, a master’s degree in computer science and another master's degree in marketing and finance from Indiana University in the United States.

Ricky Wong Wai-kay is a telecom and media entrepreneur in Hong Kong. He is the chairman and founder of Hong Kong Television Network, and the founder of Hong Kong Broadband Network. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees, United College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Joseph Yam Chi-kwong, GBM, GBS, CBE, JP is a Hong Kong statistician, economist and civil servant. He was the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong's de facto central bank, holding the position for 16 years. In 2011 Yam was elected to a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Bank UBS AG. In 2014, following UBS AG's restructuring, he was appointed to the board of directors of the UBS Group AG and served in the position till May 2017. He has been a member of the Corporate Culture and Responsibility Committee and the Risk Committee of the UBS Group AG since 2011 and a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong since 2017.

Marjorie Yang Mun-tak GBS is Chairwoman of Esquel Group, a Hong Kong-based textile and apparel manufacturer with operations throughout the world, producing over 110 million cotton shirts every year for well-acclaimed brands and retailers such as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss, Nike, and Marks and Spencer.

David Yeung is the co-founder of Green Monday, founder of social enterprise Mind Reset Institute, soul book "Communication Positive Energy"[2], "Starting Positive Energy"[3] and "Dong Du Zen"[4] The author, "East Weekly", "Warm the World", etNet and other columnists, hosted the celebrity "Run Vegetarian" column in "U Magazine". He used to be the host of the Hong Kong Metro Finance and Economics Channel, and also served as a guest on different TV programs, including wireless, Cable, NowTV and Phoenix Satellite TV. In addition, Mr. Yang has been invited to give lectures on Buddhism[5], Soul and Environmental Protection for many Fortune 500 companies and first-level universities many times, and was selected as the 2015 Hong Kong Top Ten Outstanding Youth by the International Youth Chamber of Commerce, "JMEN" awarded "Men of the Year 2013" award, "Ming Pao Weekly" "2013 Local Heroes" award, Hong Kong Management Association "2013 Outstanding Market Illustration" Bronze Award, "East Weekly" will "2013 Outstanding Enterprise Illustration" award, Roadshow "Green Star" Environmental Protection Award, "Baccarat" magazine's 45 young leaders in Hong Kong, "Purpose Economy" "Asia's 100 Outstanding Leaders", "Fast Company" "China Business 100 Most Creative People" [6], "U Magazine" My Favorite Hong Kong Environmental Figure 2016, etc.

Eddie Yue Wai-man, JP, is the 3rd and current Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, having held the position since 1 October 2019.

Allan Zeman GBM, GBS, JP is a Canadian-born Hong Kong business magnate.