Peter Wong Tung-shun, JP ( born November 1951, in

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

) is a Hong Kong banker associated with the

HSBC HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 tri ...

and StanChart. He retired as CEO of HSBC Asia Pacific and became non-executive chairman of

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, effective 7 June 2021. He holds a

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degree from the

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in Canada, a

master’s degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

and another master's degree in

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

and

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

from

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in the

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. He is one of the 124 members of Hong Kong’s delegation to the

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

.China has HSBC’s taipan in a vice with few options but to fall in line with the security law for Hong Kong in the bank’s biggest market
SCMP, 4 July 2020

Biography

*1980: Joined

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and served as Deputy

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, Director of

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, Assistant

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and Director of Banking Business. *1996: Appointed as the Director of Operating, Services, and Sales for

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of Citibank *1997: Joined

Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around ...

and served as Director of Personal Banking for Hong Kong and China *2000: Appointed as Chief Executive for Hong Kong of Standard Chartered Bank *2002: Appointed as Director of

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of Standard Chartered Bank *2005: Joined

and served as General Manager of HSBC Group and an executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation *2010: Appointed as the first Chinese Asia Pacific CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation In 2020, in a highly symbolic act that ended the bank's previous political neutrality, Wong signed a public petition supporting the Chinese leadership’s creation of a far-reaching national security law for Hong Kong. The move was understood as politically necessary to avoid punitive action against the bank by Beijing but drew widespread international and local Hong Kong criticism.HSBC’s Asia chief backs China security law for Hong Kong
CNBC, Jun 3 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Peter 1951 births Living people Hong Kong bankers Hong Kong chief executives Hong Kong financial businesspeople HSBC people Indiana University alumni Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026 University of Calgary alumni Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference