Canning Fok Kin-ning (); born 1951 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

) is a Hong Kong business executive. He is a director or chair of numerous management board in companies of

Cheung Kong Holdings Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a major ...

and

Hutchison Whampoa Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. It was a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HWL was an international corporation with a dive ...

. He is hailed as the "King of Employees" since he has been one of the Hong Kong's top-five

taxpayers A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or n ...

in the past few years.

Education

Fok holds a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree from St. John's University in

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

, United States, and a diploma in

financial management Financial management is the business function concerned with profitability, expenses, cash and credit, so that the "organization may have the means to carry out its objective as satisfactorily as possible;" the latter often defined as maximizin ...

from the University of New England in

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

, Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Career

Fok is considered

Li Ka-shing Sir Ka-shing Li (; born 13 June 1928) is a Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. As of June 2019, Li is the 31st richest person in the world, with an estimated net wealth of US$33.4 billion. He is the senior ad ...

's right-hand man, and has worked alongside the business magnate for over 40 years as his trusted lieutenant and dealmaker.

Positions

Fok worked as the following positions of the following companies. *Group Co-managing Director of

CK Hutchison Holdings CK Hutchison Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-based and Cayman Islands-registered multinational conglomerate corporation. The company was formed in March 2015 through the merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and its main associate company Hutchison Wh ...

*Deputy Chairman of Cheung Kong Infrastructure *Chairman of Hongkong Electric Holdings *Chairman of

Hutchison Harbour Ring Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited was a Bermuda incorporated company based in Hong Kong. The company was sold to Oceanwide Holdings in December 2014. It was a holding company that manufactures and markets toys, premiums, telecommunication accessori ...

*Chairman of

Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited Hutchison Asia Telecom Group or HAT, is a division of Hong Kong-based multinational conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings. The division provides telecommunications services to several Asian countries. The division was formerly incorporated as H ...

*Chairman of Orange plc *Chairman of

TPG Telecom Limited TPG Telecom Limited, formerly Vodafone Hutchison Australia and renamed following the merger with TPG (ISP), TPG, is an Australian telecommunications company. It is the second largest telecommunications company listed on the Australian Securiti ...

*Chairman of

Hongkong International Terminals Limited Hongkong International Terminals Limited (HIT) () is one of several key container port operators in the Port of Hong Kong owned by Hutchison Port Holdings, which is the largest port operator in Hong Kong and the world. HIT operates 12 berths i ...

*Chairman of Partner Communications *Co-chairman of

Husky Energy Husky Energy Inc. is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It operates in Western and Atlantic Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, with upstream and downstream business segm ...

*Deputy Chief Commissioner of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Philanthropy

Fok endowed the Canning and Eliza Fok House, a graduate residence at

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall. In 2008, following a donation of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, it was renamed Murray Edwar ...

. He also endowed the Eliza and Canning Fok Endowed Fund for International Student Financial Aid at Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

References

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