Mr. Chan Hiu Fung Nicholas, MH, JP, was born in December 1973. He is currently a partner of Squire Patton Boggs. Mr. Chan graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree of Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and a degree of Bachelor of Laws in March 1997, and he was admitted as a solicitor in the High Court of Hong Kong in May 1999. Mr. Chan has been appointed as a member of the Hospital Governing Committee of Castle Peak Hospital and Siu Lam Hospital since April 2019. He has been appointed to serve as a council member of The Chinese University of Hong Kong for a period of three years from 1 June 2022. Since May 2022, he has been appointed to serve as the director of AALCO Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Centre, a regional arbitration centre established by an intergovernmental legal consultative organisation. He is also the Hong Kong Deputy to the 13th and 14th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. From 30 December 2014 to 30 May 2019, Mr. Chan was a council member of the Law Society of Hong Kong, and for six years from 1 April 2016, he served as a council member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Mr. Chan was awarded with the Medal of Honour (MH) from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2016 and was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in July 2021.

Since 1 April 2024, Mr. Chan was appointed as the director to the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, the Chairman of the Knowledge Transfer Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Council and a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of The Chinese University of Hong Kong respectively, each for a period of two years. Since 16 June 2023, Mr. Chan was appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee Member of the Innovation and Technology Venture Fund for a period of two years. He was also appointed as a member of the Social Development Expert Group of the Chief Executive’s Policy Unit Expert Group for a period of one year from 30 May 2023. Mr. Chan is appointed to serve as a member of the Committee on Innovation, Technology and Industry Development of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 3 March 2023, and as a member of the Communications Authority with effect from 1 April 2023.

Mr. Chan is also an Independent Non-executive Director of Sa Sa International Holdings Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director of Q P Group Holdings Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director of Pangaea Connectivity Technology Limited, an Independent Non-executive Director of Million Cities Holdings Limited, and an Independent Nonexecutive Director of Genertec Universal Medical Group Company Limited. Shares of the above five companies are listed on the HKSE.

He is currently an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, a member of each of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee.