HKEX Announces the Re-appointment of Laura May-Lung Cha as Chairman

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has given her written approval of the re-appointment of Mrs Laura May-Lung Cha (Mrs Cha) as the Chairman with immediate effect until the conclusion of HKEX's annual general meeting to be held in 2024.

Mrs Cha is a member of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Unilever plc; a Senior International Advisor of Foundation Assets Management Sweden AB and a member of Sotheby's International Advisory Board.

In addition, she is also Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and a Director of the World Federation of Exchanges.

Mrs Cha became the first, and to-date, the only person outside Mainland China to join the Central Government of the People's Republic of China at the vice ministerial rank when she was appointed as Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in January 2001.

She served in that position until September 2004. Mrs Cha worked for the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2000, becoming its Deputy Chairman in 1998. She was also Chairman of The Financial Services Development Council of Hong Kong from January 2013 to July 2018.