Professor Chan, 56, was Dean of Business and Management in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) before he was appointed Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in July 2007. Prior to joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Professor Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.

Professor Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.

Before joining the Government, Professor Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.

Ms. Alexa Lam is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Executive Director, Investment Products, International & China. Her role covers the regulation of the Hong Kong retail investment products market, SFC's policies on international engagements, and market development in Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Ms. Lam promotes actively financial co-operation between the Mainland and Hong Kong, working closely with Mainland regulators and government authorities on new capital market reform policies and rules. She is one of the principal architects of the development of Hong Kong's offshore RMB business and RMB investment products.

Major initiatives led by Ms. Lam include:

• Initiating a new Products Handbook, including Hong Kong's first Unlisted Structured Investment Products Code
• Encouraging product innovation, covering exchange-traded funds, structured funds, real estate investment trusts and RMB-denominated funds
• Promoting Hong Kong as an offshore RMB centre including advocating the RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) program
• Engaging Mainland authorities on mutual recognition of funds between Hong Kong and the Mainland

Ms. Lam plays a significant role in international regulatory initiatives. She co-chairs, with the Director of Banking Supervision and Regulation of the US Federal Reserve Board, the Working Group on Margining Requirements of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

Outside the SFC, Ms. Lam performs a wide range of public service. She sits on the Asian Institute of International Financial Law Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, advises the Hong Kong Trade Development Council on promoting Hong Kong's financial services and works in the Steering Committee for the Asian Financial Forum, Hong Kong's flagship financial market annual conference.

Qualified as a lawyer in Hong Kong, New York and the UK, Ms. Lam has 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial law practice in Hong Kong, Chicago and New York prior to joining the SFC.

徐浩，理学硕士、工商管理硕士。1998年加入中国证监会，历任机构监管部副处长、稽查局处长、副局长、2012年4月起任基金部副主任。

Florence Chan is the Regional Head of Compliance for Asia Pacific of Allianz Global Investors. She has over 17 years of experience in compliance and audit fields in asset management business. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors, she held various senior compliance/audit positions including with Credit Suisse Asset Management, Franklin Templeton Investments, Prudential Financial and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She has been a member of the Regulatory Subcommittee of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association since 2003 and involved in various key regulatory initiatives in Hong Kong and China.

Florence holds a MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and LLB from the University of London. She has also qualified as a CPA in US and HK since 1998 and 1999 respectively.

Francis Chung is the Chief Executive Officer of MPF Ratings Hong Kong Ltd, a research group providing independent research, views and opinions on retirement matters in the region. Notably, MPF Ratings recently announced Hong Kong's first and only public rating of MPF Schemes. Previously, Francis was Head of Portfolio Construction at HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) responsible for investment process design and analytics. Prior to joining HSBC, Francis was an Executive Director at Schroder Investment Management HK Ltd where he was responsible for the development of Asian multi-asset solutions for clients globally. He has over twenty years' experience in the industry and has worked in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Francis holds a bachelor's degree in Business, with a major in Finance and Economics, from the University of Technology in Australia.

Bryan Collins is Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, working closely with the fixed income team based in London and Hong Kong.

Bryan has over twelve years of investment experience, joining Fidelity Worldwide Investment's Hong Kong office initially as a fixed income trader in 2006. Bryan became portfolio manager in June 2009 and currently manages Fidelity's Fixed Income funds in Asia namely - China RMB Bond Fund, Asian High Yield Fund, Asian Bond Fund, Hong Kong Bond Fund as well as a number of Hong Kong and Japanese cash funds. In total, Bryan is responsible for managing over US$4bn in assets on behalf of clients.

Prior to joining Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Bryan was a senior fixed income trader with Credit Suisse Asset Management and was based in Sydney, Australia.

He is a CFA charter holder and completed a Masters of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales.

Lieven Debruyne is Chief Executive of Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong) and Head of Intermediary, Asia Pacific.

He started his investment career in 1993 in the United States with MeesPierson Capital Management. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 as Asian fund manager and was promoted to Chief Investment Officer in 1998. In 1999 and 2000, Lieven worked in Paris for the same firm, rebranded as Fortis Investments. Lieven joined Schroders in London in 2000 as Head of Asian product and business development until moving to Hong Kong for the second time in 2005.

Mr. Debruyne holds a Master of Science in Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

He is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.
He is a Member of the Products Advisory Committee of Securities and Futures Commission.
He is a Member of the Corporate Advisory Council of The Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.

Gabriel Gondard is the Head of BlackRock’s Strategic Product Management team for Asia ex-Japan. His team is responsible for driving new product projects all the way from idea generation to launch, for various types of investor in the region, across a wide variety of asset classes, investment strategies and product structures.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Mr. Gondard was the Chief Operating Officer of the Asia Pacific structured products platform of Societe Generale in Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2009 he was the deputy Chief Investment Officer of Fortune SGAM Fund Management, a Shanghai-based asset management venture between Societe Generale and Baosteel. From 2000 to 2006 he was successively a portfolio manager and a fund manager with Societe Generale Asset Management in Paris, in charge of managing dedicated portfolios for individual investors and then tailored multi-asset funds for institutional investors.

Mr. Gondard holds a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics in Paris, and a Specialized Master's Degree from ESCP Europe Business School in Paris. He is a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) and a Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA).

Nick Good, Managing Director, is the Head of Strategy and Business Development, Asia-Pacific, BlackRock. He is responsible for defining and executing BlackRock's strategic agenda in Asia-Pacific, including identifying and developing business opportunities across the region. He is a member of the BlackRock Asia-Pacific Executive Committee and a Responsible Officer for BlackRock North Asia Ltd.

Prior to taking this role, Mr. Good was Head of iShares, Asia-Pacific, responsible for the iShares business across Asia-Pacific, including both distribution and management of iShares products and offices in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Mr. Good's service with the firm dates back to 2006, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, Mr. Good was CEO of iShares, Asia-Pacific and prior to that was Managing Director, Strategy & Planning for iShares and the institutional and markets group globally.

Before joining BGI, Mr. Good was a lead client manager at the Boston Consulting Group based in San Francisco, where he consulted to clients in Financial Services and a range of other industries globally. Mr. Good is a graduate of Oxford University, where he studied biochemistry.

Showbhik Kalra is Head of Product, Asia Pacific at Schroder Investment Management.

He joined Schroders from PIMCO Asia where he was responsible for products in Asia-Pacific with a focus on emerging markets. He previously worked for PIMCO and Allianz Alternative Asset Management based in the United States with a focus on credit, structured products and alternatives. Earlier in his career he co-founded a company, subsequently acquired by a NYSE-listed firm, that commercialized an award-winning digital motion picture restoration technology he developed as an undergraduate.

Mr. Kalra holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a master's degree in financial engineering through a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from NTU.

Marie-Anne Kong is a Partner in PwC Hong Kong's Financial Services Division and leads the firm's Asset Management Industry practice in Hong Kong. She has over 20 years of experience working in Hong Kong and the UK.

In addition to providing audit services to the asset management industry, Marie-Anne also has extensive experience in advising asset management firms on operational effectiveness, best practices in areas of corporate governance and internal controls, funds start-ups, and regulatory and compliance work. She services clients across the various sub-sectors of the asset management industry including hedge funds, private equity, real estate and traditional asset managers.

Professional Affiliation:

• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• Practising member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA)
• Convenor of the Securities and Investment Funds Regulatory Liaison Group for HKICPA
• Member of the Regulatory Subcommittee of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA)
• Member of the Regulatory Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association, Hong Kong Chapter (AIMA)
• Member of the Committee on Real Estate Investment Trusts of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
• Member of the Share Registrars’ Disciplinary Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
• Member of the Working Group on OEICs - New Business Committee, Financial Services Development Council (FSDC)

Claude Kremer is a founding partner of Arendt & Medernach law firm and is also a member of the firm's council. He serves as head of the firm's investment management industry group. His whole professional career has been devoted to the global fund and asset management industry advising clients on the setting up of Luxembourg investment and pension funds and providing legal support to asset managers, depositaries and other asset servicers with regard to the structuring and development of their businesses in Luxembourg.

Claude sits on the board of several listed companies and international asset management groups as well as their fund ranges in Luxembourg.

From June 2011 until June 2013, Claude served as president of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). From May 2007 until June 2011, he was chairman of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). In 2005, he was a member of the EU Commission expert group on market efficiency. Claude is also a member of several advisory committees to the Commission for the Supervision of the Luxembourg Financial Sector (CSSF).

Claude is co-author of a book entitled Collective Investment Schemes in Luxembourg: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, January 2009) which was first published in French (Les organismes de placement collectif en droit luxembourgeois, Larcier, Brussels, 2nd edition, 2007). In addition, he is a reader in fund law at the University of Luxembourg.

A member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1982, Claude holds Master's degrees in law and history from the Université Pierre Mendès France de Grenoble (France) and a Master's degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.).

Languages: English, French, German and Luxembourgish.

Bonnie Lam, Managing Director, Head of Wholesale Business, Asia-Pacific of HSBC Global Asset Management, is responsible for developing the wholesale business as well as implementing the sales and marketing strategies of retail fund distribution in Asia.

Ms. Lam has taken up her current position since September 2011. She joined HSBC Global Asset Management in 1999 as Associate Director and was later promoted to Director, Head of Wholesale Business, Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining HSBC, Ms. Lam was Vice President of Investment Services at Citibank for the period 1993-1999. She oversaw the retail investment business and was responsible for the formulation and execution of business strategies. She started her career at Gartmore Fund Management Limited.

Ms. Lam participates in the industry actively. She is currently the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.

Bruno Lee is the Regional Head of Retail for Asia Pacific ex Japan of Fidelity Worldwide Investment. Located in Hong Kong, he has over 20 years of experience in the asset management and wealth management business. He is responsible for the growth and profitability of the Personal Investing business, with key focus on existing business in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and on assessing other potential market opportunities.

Bruno began his career at Fidelity Worldwide Investment in 1991 holding various posts in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He joined HSBC in 2006 as the Regional Head of Wealth Management Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of customer propositions and product strategies for the deposit, investment and insurance distribution business. In January 2012, he rejoined Fidelity Worldwide Investment.

Bruno is a member of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Unit Trust Subcommittee of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA). He also represents the Association to serve as a member of the IEC Advisory Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).

Bruno holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Calgary in Canada and a Masters of Science in Investment Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Rosita Lee joined Hang Seng Bank in 1996. She is responsible for overseeing the development, selection and due diligence of wealth management products for distribution to personal, corporate and institutional customers. She covers foreign exchange, retail margin trading, structured products, investment funds and asset management for the Bank. Rosita also supervises the provision of sales support services to frontline and investors.

Rosita is also a Director of Hang Seng Investment Management Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hang Seng Bank. In this capacity, she is responsible for overseeing the product and sales development of its institutional and wholesale businesses.

Prior to her current role, Rosita held various positions in the Bank's Private Banking and Trust Services, Investment Services and Marketing divisions. She is also currently an Executive Officer of Hang Seng Bank and a Responsible Officer of Hang Seng Investment Management Limited.

Rosita has over 20 years of diverse experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Hang Seng, she held positions with various functional responsibilities at an international bank. Rosita holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from The University of Hong Kong and is CFP^CM certified. She is currently a member of the Process Review Panel and the Arbitration Panel under the Securities and Futures (Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading) (Arbitration) Rules of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, and a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel under the Financial Reporting Council.

Mr. Trevor Lee joined the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in August 2008 and is currently the Director in the Investment Products Division.

In his present role, Mr. Lee is mainly responsible for the authorization and approval of retail investment products and is a member of the SFC Products Advisory Committee.

Prior to joining the SFC, Mr. Lee was the Executive Director and Counsel at Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. with legal advisory responsibilities covering the Global Securities Services / Prime Brokerage Division.

Mr. Lee has extensive experiences in the legal field and is qualified to practise law in Victoria, Australia and Hong Kong. He had previously worked at the international law firms of Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Norton Rose. His expertise involves legal advisory work in respect of public equity global offerings and merger and acquisitions transactions.

Mr. Lee read law at the University of Melbourne, from which he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws and also a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

George S K Leung is Advisor to Chief Executive of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. His role mainly covers the Bank's business strategy development and economic affairs for the Asia Pacific region. He is also a member of the Executive Committee in Hong Kong. Prior to this appointment in 2005, he was Chief Economist, Greater China, the post he held since 2000. Mr. Leung joined HSBC as Senior Economist in 1994.

Mr. Leung is a renowned business economist and an influential public policy commentator in the region. He also has a long record of public service, including former Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Alternate to Chairman of The Hong Kong Association of Banks; member of the HKSAR Financial Services Development Council; former member of Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (Hong Kong Committee), Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council, Government Statistics Advisory Board, PCICB, etc. Mr. Leung is also an honorary advisor to several public and tertiary institutions.

Mr. Leung obtained his Master degree in Economics from The University of Toronto, Canada in 1984. He was also granted a MBS degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2009.

Ms. Lu has extensive experience and expertise in securities investment funds and other assets management business. In the area of securities investment funds, she has provided legal services for almost 40 JV and domestic fund management companies, and she has represented domestic and overseas financial institutions for establishments, mergers and acquisitions of over twenty fund management companies in mainland China. She also provides professional legal support for the daily operation of fund management companies. Meanwhile, she has been acting as the legal advisor for almost one hundred domestic open-ended securities investment funds including equity funds, balance funds, bond funds, monetary market funds, ETF and innovation products. Furthermore, she has also been engaged as the legal advisor for a large number of QDII funds and has advised on onshore QDII funds to cooperate with offshore well-known banks and assets management institutions. Ms. Lu also provides professional legal service for pension funds, social security funds and segregated account management. She is also working as the legal advisor for various financial products issued by commercial banks or trust companies. Ms. Lu also has extensive experience in QFII and RQFII license application, its products structure and its onshore and offshore operations. Ms. Lu is often invited to give legal advice on the new laws and regulations legislation for the regulators.

Mr. McShane has been an Executive Director of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority since 2002. He heads the Regulation and Policy Division, which is responsible for investment regulation, policy development, legal services and research & statistics. He currently is the Deputy Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors.

Prior to his time at the MPFA, he held various senior roles with the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) and before that he also worked with the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation Ltd. (IMRO), the former fund management regulator in the United Kingdom. Prior to his regulatory roles he practised as a Barrister in Australia.

Terry Pan, Managing Director, is Head of the Hong Kong Business. Since 2013 he has also taken up an additional role of overseeing QDII Retail Business in China. Before 2010, he was Head of the Retail Business in Hong Kong and Macau for four years. Terry first joined the firm in 1994, left for two years, and rejoined in 2003 as Head of Intermediary Sales. In 2001, Terry worked with Hutchison CSFB Direct as Sales Director. Prior to that he spent seven years with J.P. Morgan Asset Management, working in several areas, including sales, investment services and project management, and transferred to the firm's then joint venture with PCCW, 2cube Securities, in 2000 where he was Vice President - Sales. Terry obtained a BA in finance and real estate from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas and an MBA from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also a holder of the CFA designation.

Bill E. Rosensweig is a Partner, and the head of Brown Brothers Harriman Hong Kong. He is responsible for delivering BBH's Investor Services proposition to its Asia-based clients that are serviced from Hong Kong. He is a Director of BBH's subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Japan, and oversees BBH's Beijing Representative Office. He is licensed as a Responsible Officer by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for dealing in - and advising on - securities, and leveraged foreign exchange trading.

Bill joined BBH in 2001. He has served as Product Manager for BBH Infomediary® in the U.S. and BBH Private Account Services in the UK.

Prior to joining BBH, Bill served as a senior manager in the Financial Services division of KPMG Consulting in New York.

Bill has a BA degree from Hobart College and an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from Boston College.

Mark Shipman is a partner in Hong Kong, Global Head of Funds & Investment Management industry sector and Head of the Asia Pacific Financial Services Regulatory group. He is admitted in Hong Kong and England & Wales. Mr. Shipman joined Clifford Chance London in 1991 and moved to Clifford Chance Hong Kong in 1997. He has extensive experience advising managers, sponsors and investors on all types of funds, structured as corporate vehicles, limited partnerships and unit trusts, both open-ended and closed-ended, including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, special opportunity funds, and other alternative fund products. He also regularly advises private banks on their investment services and products. In addition, he specialises in providing regulatory advice to fund managers, private banks and other financial institutions. He is also a member of the Financial Services Development Council; a member of the Advisory Committee to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and a member of the Executive Committee of AIMA Hong Kong and a member of the Technical Committee of HKVCA.

Paul A. Smith is the Vice President and Head of Individual Financial Products, Hong Kong, Manulife (International) Limited. Mr. Smith, who heads growth and development of individual financial products and services, including its full range of individual life insurance and general insurance businesses, has been with Manulife for 27 years.

Mr. Smith has held senior roles in insurance, wealth management, distribution and banking with Manulife's Canadian Division. From 1997-1998, he was Managing Director of Manulife's Asia Pacific Reinsurance operations, based in Singapore.

He holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, and is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI) and an Associate of the Insurance Institute of Canada (AIIC).

Stuart joined the firm in 1992 and has been a managing director since 2008. He is responsible for the Hong Kong's mandates in global equities and balanced funds, and manages the equity portion of the absolute return funds. Beginning in 1994, Stuart has managed Oriental Income, a total return fund investing in the Asia Pacific region that has won numerous performance awards. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in 1983. Stuart joined Wood Gundy in 1984 and spent six years in Japan before transferring to Indonesia to run an affiliate joint venture merchant bank. Stuart has spent a total of 29 years in Asia and is a CFA charterholder.

Joey Zhang is Managing Director of Wealth Management business and International business, overseeing the strategy, development, and distribution of technology products aligned with Wind's wealth management software and international expansion.

Prior to joining Wind Info at 2012, Joey worked as Director and Product Manager for Morningstar since 2001. He has also worked for Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1995 and 2000.

Joey holds a M. Sc. in computer science from DePaul University and a B. Sc. in nuclear physics from University of Science and Technology of China. He is also a CFA charter holder.

Isabella Chan is the Director, Sales & Marketing, of Franklin Templeton Investments (Asia) Limited and is responsible for all Hong Kong retail and QDII institutional business in China.

Ms. Chan joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2000 during which she has held various positions within the firm, including network manager for Emerging markets team and fund treasury management roles for Asia. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.

Ms. Chan has been in the asset management and financial services industry for over 15 years. Prior to joining the Franklin Templeton Investments, Ms. Chan headed the Client Service and Fund Administration team at HSBC Asset Management (HK) Limited.

Ms. Chan holds a Master of Business Administration from Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales and Sydney University, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from University of London, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.