The Honourable Bernard C CHAN, JP
Non-official Member, Executive Council
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

The Honourable Bernard Chan is a member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong SAR. A graduate of Pomona College in California, U.S.A., he holds the positions of President of Asia Financial Group and Asia Insurance. He serves as the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service and the Deputy Chairman of the Lingnan University. He is also a member of the Insurance Advisory Committee, Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council and the Committee on Financial Assistance for Family members of Those Who Sacrifice Their Lives to Save Others. In addition, he serves as the Advisor of Bangkok Bank Ltd., Hong Kong Branch, the Chairman of the Hong Kong-Thailand Business Council and the Chairperson of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

Professor K C Chan
Member of the Commission of Poverty;
Dean, School of Business and Management
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Professor K.C. Chan was appointed Dean of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in July 2002. He joined HKUST in 1993, after serving on the faculty of the Ohio State University in the United States.

Professor Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and both his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. His research interests include pricing of risky assets, the performance of equity trading strategies, market microstructure, and regulatory issues dealing with the efficiency of financial markets. He is listed in Who's Who in Economics.

Professor Chan is Chairman of the Consumer Council, member of the Commission on Strategic Development, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He is former President of the Asian Finance Association and Member of the Maintenance Accreditation Committee of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International in the US.

Dr. Tom K T CHAN
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences;
Convenor, Unit for Third Sector Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Chan Kam Tong is currently Principal Lecturer/Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Convenor of the Unit of Third Sector Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Chan obtained his Ph.D. in Management and Administration from Brunel University, UK.

Dr. Chan has served as member of the Admissions, Budgets and Allocations Sun-committee as well as Membership Sub-committee of the Hong Kong Community Chest since 2003. He is now the Research Fellow of the Laurentian University in Canada, the Shanghai University, PRC as well as the Centre for Third Sector Studies, Cheng Chi University, Taiwan.

His research interest includes Public Administration, Total Quality Management, Performance Measurement, and Human Resources Management of the Public Sector. In the past years, he has been commissioned by the Central Policy Unit for the Third Sector Landscape Study in Hong Kong (2003); by the Labour Department in studying the youth unemployment (2001); and by the Social Welfare Department in examining the Board of Directors of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Hong Kong (2002). He recently has completed a research study on a comparative analysis of the Third Sector organizations in Hong Kong, China Mainland and Taiwan (2005). He is now working on a number of research projects including: Evaluation of the NGO- Private sector collaboration in the CIIF-funded projects (2006); study on Position Classification and Professionalization of the Social Service Personnel of the Ministry of Civil Affairs commissioned by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, PRC (2006) and an International Study of the Civil Society Index (CSI) which involves 64 countries around the world. In the past years, his consultancy projects include serving as TQM consultant of over 30 hospitals and NGOs both in Hong Kong, China and Canada.

Mr. Ronnie CHAN
Chairman
Hang Lung Properties Limited

Mr. Ronnie C. Chan is the Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Both are publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, with the latter being a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index. Hang Lung has been a leader in Hong Kong's property development market for over 40 years. For 2005, Hang Lung Properties has a net profit of HK$6.8 billion. Following successes in Shanghai, Hang Lung plans to invest about HK$30 billion and build world-class commercial complexes in ten major Chinese cities in the coming three years.

Mr. Chan also co-founded the Morningside Group. In the past two decades, Morningside and its associates owned and managed companies focusing on manufacturing, public transport operations, advertising, media and healthcare in mainland China, developmental capital investments in Southeast Asia, manufacturing and distribution in Europe, and service industries and high tech investments in North America.

Mr. Chan is Chairman of the Executive Committees of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute and of the Better Hong Kong Foundation, Convenor of the Hong Kong Development Forum, an Advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the China Heritage Fund which restores cultural relics in China. Internationally, Mr. Chan is a Vice Chairman of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and also serves or has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks and universities, including the University of Southern California, East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He is the founding Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Business Council, and a former Chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council.

Mr. Chan holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has published numerous articles in the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Newsweek, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and Japan Times.

Professor CHEUNG Yan Leung, Stephen
Member of the Commission on Poverty;
Professor (Chair) of Finance, Department of Economic & Finance,
Faculty of Business
The City University of Hong Kong

Prof. Yan-Leung Cheung Stephen is a Chair Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics and Finance, The City University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Cheung has extensive consultancy experience in the Hong Kong financial sector. He served as a project coordinator for the Consumer Council to examine the Hong Kong Banking sector. He was the Chairman of Core Group on Corporate Governance, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and was responsible to draft the guidelines of good corporate governance practice for Asia-Pacific economies. He has also provided consultancy services to the Asian Development Bank, United Nations ESCAP, Securities and Futures Commission, Financial Services Branch of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and SG Securities (HK) Ltd.

Prof. Cheung was a founding director of the HK Securities Institute and the founding chairman of the professional education committee. He served on the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform and the Economic and Employment Council. He is a member of the Public Shareholders Group of the Securities and Futures Commission and the advisory board of Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He serves on the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee, Commission on Poverty, the Small and Medium Enterprises Committee, the Statistics Advisory Committee, the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. He is also a part-time member of advisory board of the Central Policy Unit and a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Labour Tribunal.

Professor Stephen W K CHIU
Director of the Public Policy Research Centre and
Professor, Department of Sociology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Stephen W.K. Chiu got his doctorate from Princeton University and is currently Professor in the Sociology Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research interests include development studies, industrial relations, social movements and the comparative study of the East Asian Newly Industrialized Economies. He has published widely in international journals and has also written two co-authored books: East Asia and the World Economy (1995, Newbury Park: Sage) and City-States in the Global Economy: The Industrial Restructuring of Hong Kong and Singapore (1997, Boulder: Westview). His recent publication includes an co-edited volume in 2000, The Dynamics of Social Movement in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press). He is writing a book with Tai-lok Lui on Hong Kong's emergence as a global city and its socioeconomic implications. He is also concurrently serving as the Director of Social and Economic Policy Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Deputy Chair of Social and Economic Policy Institute, a think-tank serving grassroots labour organizations in Hong Kong.

He has been the coordinator of the “Support Programme on the Teaching and Learning of Liberal Studies”, Sociology Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong since its inception in 1997. He is also a member of the Curriculum Development Council – Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Committee on Liberal Studies (Senior Secondary).

Mrs. Margaret ELLIOTT
Managing Director
Sunderland Home Care Associates, U.K.

Mrs. Margaret Elliott was born and bred and have lived in Sunderland all of her life. As a housewife and mother in the 70's (and with some inspiration from Robert Oakeshott) she was instrumental in getting a group of women together and starting a worker's co-operative shop, Little Women. The shop had a nursery above so that they could look after their children while they worked. It was a liberating experience for the seven women involved; they learned all aspects of running a business and it changed their lives. They became much more self-assured and their confidence grew.

After selling the shop in the early 80's and then doing a diploma in Community and Youth Work Mrs. Elliott developed a second co-op, this time a small Home Care co-operative, Little Women Household Services Ltd. This co-op used Social Security benefits to cover the cost of the help. They built up close contacts with social services agencies, trade unions and the voluntary sector.

In 1985 Mrs. Elliott was asked by the Prince's Trust to help develop a new project, which she agreed to do. The Thatcher Government stopped the benefit the co-op used to cover the cost of the service, so the co-op slowly went moribund. In 1988 the Griffiths Report on Care in the Community rekindled her interest.

Robert Oakeshott enabled her to go to New York to look at the care co-ops there. It was an inspirational trip. She started Sunderland Home Care Associates (SHCA) in 1994, firstly as a worker co-operative and later an employee owned company. SHCA has grown to 175 workers with a turnover in excess of £1.75 million. Based on the successful model of SHCA they have created an umbrella organization, Care and Share Associates Ltd (CASA). CASA is the replication vehicle for other employee owned care companies. In July 2004 North Tyneside Home Care Associates began trading. They currently employ 35 people and do around 800 hours of care a week. In September 2005 they were successful in gaining a contract with Newcastle Social Services. Newcastle Home Care Associates started providing a service in December 2005 and employ 17 people. CASA have just appointed a manager for Manchester Home Care Associates and they hope to be providing a service in June 2006.

Mrs. Elliott's commitment to participation in the work place is as strong as it was when she first learned of this totally different way of working in the early seventies.

Mr. Malcolm Hayday
Chief Executive
Charity Bank, U.K.

Malcolm Hayday, FRSA, is the Chief Executive of The Charity Bank Limited, the UK's first general charity to be authorised as a bank.

He was previously the Director of Community Finance at CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) and Director of CA's social investment loan fund, Investors in Society.

He is in his second term (1996-2002) (2004-) as a Board Member of INAISE, the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, a global network of social investment institutions, having been its President, 1997-2001. Since 2000 he has also been a Trustee of The Big Issue Foundation and was elected its Chairman in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was a founding Board member of the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA). He is a member of the Advisory Group of global foundation leaders to the World Economic Forum. Malcolm is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of NESsT, the non profit enterprise and self-sustainability team, and the Advisory Group for NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project. He is the Accountable Officer to the Home Office for the Futurebuilders Fund. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Malcolm has more than 30 years experience in business finance. He graduated from Exeter University in 1972 with a BA Hons. in Economics. After university he assumed progressively senior positions with City financial institutions. From 1987 he concentrated on finance for small and medium sized businesses. He joined CAF in 1993 to establish the loans service for charities. He has written a number of papers on the social economy and social investment.

He was a member of the advisory group to the Small is Bankable report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1998); the advisory group to the Development Trusts Association on asset based development (1998-9); the SEEDA social capital fund study group (2000); and the working group on social investment in Scotland which led to the development of Social Investment Scotland. He was also a member of the Arts Council of England national steering group on new financial instruments.

www.charitybank.org

Professor KUAN Yu-yuan
Department of Social Welfare
Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Yu-yuan Kuan is Professor of Social Welfare at Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. A Hakka of Taiwan, he earned an undergraduate degree in political sciences at Taiwan University, and MA in public policy and administration at Sun Yat-sen University-Kaohsiung, and Ph.D. degree in political sciences at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

His research focuses on the third sector issues of local non-profit organizations (NPO) in Taiwan. He has done several projects with respect to the governance of NPO in Taiwan (including social groups and foundations), the role and function played by NPO in the social and economic development of Taiwanese society, the impact of the grass-root NPO on the development of civil society in Taiwan, and the performance evaluation of NPO, particularly on its programmes and management. Recently, he begins to commit himself to the comparison tasks, co-chairing with scholars from Hong Kong and China to investigate the development of social enterprises in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. He is the author of a number of books, articles, and reports on the Taiwanese non-profit sector and welfare policies.

He is a member of a number of academic associations on non-profit organizations, social welfare, and public administration. In addition, he is the executive board member of Taiwanese Social Welfare Association and serves on the Board of Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, largest child welfare NPO in Taiwan.

Dr. LAW Chi Kwong, SBS, JP
Member of the Commission on Poverty;
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work & Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Law graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1976 (B.Soc.Sc.) as well as in 1981 (M.S.W.), from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1986 (M.B.A.), and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 (D.S.W.). He teaches at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, the University of Hong Kong since 1981. He had served as the Head of Department from 1993-1997. His current researches are related to digital inclusion, urban renewal, elderly services, family services, and welfare reform. Within the social welfare sector, he serves as chairperson of the Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, Cybersenior Network Development Association, and Caritas-HK Social Service Committee; Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Council of Social services, Board member of the Social Workers Registration Board, management committee member in the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association and the H.K. Christian Service. Within the Social Welfare Department, he serves as a member of the Joint Committee on Information Technology, Joint Committee on Social Work Manpower Planning, and Central Committee on Information Technology for Rehabilitation Services. Within the government, he serves as a member of the Commission on Poverty, Commission on Strategic Development, Environment Campaign Committee, and the Country and Marine Parks Board. He also serves as a consultant to a number of NGOs on matters related to financial planning and programme evaluation. Dr. Law is an Executive Committee member of the Democrat Party, and had served as a member of Legislative Council in 1995-97 and 1998-2004.

Professor LAU Siu-kai, JP
Head, Central Policy Unit
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Professor LAU Siu-kai graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1971 with a B.Soc.Sc. ( First Class Honour ) in Sociology and Economics, and from the University of Minnesota in 1975 with a Ph.D. in Sociology. He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1975. Currently he is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2002-2007 Professor Lau, on leave from the Chinese University, serves as the Head of the Central Policy Unit of the HKSAR Government.

Professor Lau's major research interests are: comparative political and social development, society and politics in Hong Kong, and political development in traditional and modern China. He studies both macroscopic issues such as institutional development as well as microscopic issues such as political culture and political behaviour. His favourite approach is the historical-comparative method. His publications include Society and Politics in Hong Kong (1982) and The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese (1988) ( co-authored with Kuan Hsin-chi ) and a number of articles in local and international journals.

Mr. Graham MORRIS
Chairman
The Board of the FRC Group U.K.

Graham Morris was born in Liverpool, England. He is 56 years old, married with four children. Mr. Morris spent his entire career in the motor industry after leaving university, graduating in economics and gaining a teaching qualification. He began with British Leyland as a financial analyst at its Longbridge plant, only a few years later becoming Finance Controller at its Triumph operation. He made a career switch to become Manufacturing Director and then became the youngest Plant Director at the age of 30.

Mr. Morris went on to take on several senior roles within the industry including Managing Director, Leyland South Africa (Contract Operations), Managing Director Leyland Daf Vans and President Rover Cars North America. In 1992 he joined the main board of Rover Group as Managing Director Rover Europe, responsible for sales and marketing for Rover and Landrover products. In 1995 he was recruited to join the board of Audi AG as their first sales and marketing Director. In 1997, he was headhunted back to the UK as Chief Executive Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors – a position he held until he resigned on principle regarding the splitting of the two brands between VW Group and BMW. Currently Mr. Morris is a non-executive Director on the Boards of Bibby Line Group, a family owned shipping, distribution and financial services company and also Sigma QC, a quality improvement company. He also sits on or chairs six board in the charity and social enterprise sector, including the widely recognised Furniture Resource Centre, a sector leader in the UK.

www.frcgroup.co.uk

Mr. Andrew ROBINSON, M.B.E.
Head of Community Development Banking
NatWest & Royal Bank of Scotland

Andrew leads a cross-RBS group team responsible for re-thinking the provision of financial services for those not well served by the UK banking industry. The current emphasis of his work focuses on the 5% 'most disadvantaged' wards in the UK. He is currently a director of a number of organizations promoting community-based, community-led solutions to tackling poverty, encouraging enterprise and reforming the way local public services are delivered. He has also been a key actor in the establishment of a number of new organizations, such as the Community Development Finance Association and the UK Social Enterprise Coalition. He is a trustee of the Community Development Foundation, a non-departmental public body of the Home Office; a member of the Child Poverty and Life Chances Commission; and an active participant on a number of relevant government taskforces. During his time as Chairman of the UK Social Investment Forum, he was one of the instigators and advisors to the UK Social Investment Taskforce, established at the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen. He has a BA (English Literature) and a MBA. He is a Fellow of the RSA and a graduate of Common Purpose. He was appointed MBE for services to community and social enterprise in June 2003.

The Honourable Henry TANG, GBS, JP
Financial Secretary
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Mr. Henry Tang is the Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. His primary responsibility is to assist the Chief Executive in overseeing policy formulation and implementation in financial, monetary, economic, trade and employment matters. He is also responsible for preparing and presenting the Government Budget. As Financial Secretary, he exercises control over the Exchange Fund, with the assistance of the Monetary Authority. He is a member of the Executive Council.

Mr. Tang has a long and distinguished record of public service. He has been a member of the Executive Council since 1997. He served as a member of the Legislative Council for seven years from 1991 to 1998. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Tang was the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology from 1 July 2002 to 3 August 2003.

Before joining the Government, Mr. Tang was a leading industrialist in Hong Kong. He received the Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong in 1989 and was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1993. He took the lead in various public organizations in Hong Kong, including serving as Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and a Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. In 2000, he received the Gold Bauhinia Star Award of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Mr. Tang holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Michigan, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the City University of Hong Kong. He is married with four children.

Professor Jane WEI-SKILLERN
Assistant Professor
General Management – Initiative on Social Enterprise
Harvard Business School, U.S.A.

Jane Wei-Skillern is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Group at the Harvard Business School. She teaches the second-year MBA elective, Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector and in the executive education programme. Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). Professor Wei-Skillern earned her B.S. in Business from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. in Business Research and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, both from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, she was an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School.

Professor Wei-Skillern's research is focused in the field of Social Enterprise. Her research examines the creation of social value in both commercial and nonprofit organizations. In the former stream of research on corporate social responsibility, she has studied the complex management challenge of how corporations develop and integrate a stakeholder approach into their overall business strategy. In the latter research stream on the management of social enterprises, her research has examined the topics of nonprofit growth and management of multisite nonprofits, and most recently has been focused on nonprofit networks. She is currently studying how building a range of strategic networks can be a powerful lever for nonprofits to achieve greater social impact. A network approach requires that organizational leaders focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and outside organizational boundaries to create social value.

www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise

Ms. Noel YEUNG
Executive Secretary, Project-in-charge on
Kwun Tong Methodist Social Service Centre and "Healthy Mothers-to-be"
– Woman and Community Network Project

Ms. Noel Yeung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 ans gained social service experiences both in Hong Kong and Canada. A registered social worker and welfare administrator by profession, she has been working as the Executive Secretary of Kwun Tong Methodist Social Service since 2000. During the past ten years, she had been involved in developing employment services for the physically handicapped and women in her serving agencies. At present, she serves as the Member of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Member of the District Welfare Council of the Social Welfare Department Kwun Tong District Office, Member of the Kwun Tong Central Area Committee and the Kwun Tong Healthy City Steering Committee of the Home Affairs Department Kwun Tong District Office.