Julia Leung Fung-yee, SBS () is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of

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 Delta i ...

. She was formerly one of the undersecretaries appointed by the Government of Hong Kong in 2008.

Education

Leung holds a

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degree from the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university and ...

and a

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degree in

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from the

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Career

Leung joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in 1994 and was promoted to Executive Director (External) in 2000. She is a member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the

Hong Kong Trade Development Council The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 as the international marketing dedicated to creating opportunities for Hong Kong's businesses. The organisation has 50 offices around the world, includin ...

. Before joining HKMA, she served on the

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for 10 years.Info.gov.hk.
Info.gov.hk
" ''CE appoints Under Secretaries (with photos).'' Retrieved on 2008-06-21. She has recently written a book called "The Tides of Capital". This book was published by OMFIF Press in January 2015. In this book Julia Leung distils two decades of financial diplomacy into an incisive account of the lessons Asia and the world have learned from successive bouts of crisis management. She entreats the west to take seriously the full implications of Asia's growing clout on the world economic stage. Leung calls on the US to share its dominant monetary position with others, especially China - a move towards a new monetary system and an overhaul of the governance of world finance. Leung currently served as executive director, Investment Products upon joining the SFC in Hong Kong, and succeed Mr James Shipton as executive director, Intermediaries Division from 19 June 2016.

Undersecretary

In 2008 she was offered the opportunity to become an undersecretary for the Financial services and the treasury under the

Political Appointments System The Political Appointments System is a scheme introduced in 2008 by the Hong Kong Government to reinforce its ministerial team by superseding the Principal Officials Accountability System and inserting two layers of politically appointed offic ...

. She possesses

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citizenship.Asia Times.
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" ''Hong Kong deputies disappoint .'' Retrieved on 2008-06-21.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leung, Julia Recipients of the Silver Bauhinia Star Government officials of Hong Kong Living people Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni 1960 births