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Diana Cesar is a General Manager of the HSBC Group. She is also Executive Director and Chief Executive of Hang Seng Bank Limited, Chairman and Non-executive Director of Hang Seng Bank (China) Limited, Chairman of Hang Seng Insurance Company Limited and Chairman of the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee of Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited.
Prior to joining Hang Seng Bank, Ms Cesar was Chief Executive of HSBC Hong Kong. She was responsible for steering the business to achieve its strategic objectives by managing client relationships and business partnerships, coordinating with the government and regulatory bodies, and improving employee well-being. She was a member of the Executive Committee for The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.
During a wide-ranging career with HSBC, Ms Cesar held leadership roles in marketing, credit cards, consumer loans and mortgages. She was Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management in Hong Kong and Regional Head of Distribution Strategy and Consumer Propositions for Asia Pacific. Earlier in her career at HSBC, she was seconded to Taiwan as Head of Credit Cards and successfully turned the business around.
Prior to joining HSBC, Ms Cesar was General Manager for Customer Relations for SmarTone Telecom. She has also worked in Canada and Hong Kong for other global financial institutions, including Citibank and American Express.
Ms Cesar also holds various industry and civic appointments, including:
• Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) - Director and Convenor of FSDC’s Human Capital Committee
• Great Eagle Holdings Limited - Independent Non-executive Director
• Hang Seng School of Commerce - Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Member of the Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Subcommittee
• Justice of the Peace appointed by the Government of the Hong Kong SAR
• The Community Chest of Hong Kong - Director, Second Vice President and Campaign Committee Chairman, and Member of Executive Committee
• The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong - Chairman of the Board of Governors
• The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation - Member of the Board of Trustees
• The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers - Vice President and Honorary Certified Banker
• Treasury Markets Association - Council Member
• University Grants Committee - Member
Ms Cesar is also a former Chairperson of the Hong Kong Association of Banks.

Yuenkei HO, from Team Hong Kong China, won gold in Boccia at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, scooping gold medals at both Individual and Mixed Pairs categories. Yuenkei is currently ranked 1st in the Boccia Individual World Ranking List. In 2016, she competed at the Rio Paralympics as Hong Kong’s first-ever Boccia athlete in BC3.

Yuenkei is one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2023 and was honoured with the Hong Kong Sports Stars Award for Women in 2022.

Yuenkei is an experienced keynote speaker for business, school, sport and community audiences across Hong Kong. It is her privilege to influence lives with her life experiences.

Janice oversees the company’s media and entertainment businesses including Viu, its pan-regional video streaming service; Viu TV, a Hong Kong free TV service as well as Makerville, its content creation and talent management company.

Janice spearheaded the launch and international expansion of Viu, which is now Asia’s leading video streaming service with operations across Southeast Asia, the Middle East & South Africa. In addition, the group invests in original content under the brand Viu Original, in Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines as well as Hong Kong, the home market for Viu TV.

Janice was named Forbes Asia’s Power Business Women in 2021 and in Variety500, an index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry, for the third consecutive year in 2023.

Janice has over 25 years of experience in media, digital entertainment, and consumer businesses, including with STAR TV and Warner Brothers and Citibank N.A.

Donna joined The Hong Kong Jockey Club as Management Trainee. She served in the business development functions before she took up her role in the Club’s Charities Trust in 2012. Donna is responsible for planning and recommending funding strategies and new Charities project initiatives, and driving the implementation of Trust projects to create impact to society. Her portfolio previously focused on Sports and Culture, and now on Talent and Sector Development. Donna is also the Deputy Secretary-General of the Institute of Philanthropy, a think-fund-do tank providing a dependable source of philanthropic knowledge and promoting collaboration for the betterment of societies.

Donna obtained her Bachelor Degree in Environmental Science from the Queen’s University in Canada and a Master Degree in Urban Planning from The University of Hong Kong.

Secy is currently serving as FutureGen Girls Foundation as Board Director and the Legal and Compliance Advisor for JYC Girls Impact Foundation.

By way of profession, Secy is an experienced litigation and dispute resolution lawyer who holds both a PRC law degree and an English law degree. She is also an accredited mediator by CEDR.

Secy has extensive experience of a range of dispute matters, including multi-jurisdictional and cross border litigation, board room and shareholders disputes, investigations and contentious regulatory / compliance matters commenced by one or more regulatory authorities, family disputes / (contentious) probate and administration matters, defamation disputes, commercial fraud and tracing claims, etc.

Secy has also been advising many victims, on a pro bono basis, in online or internet fraud and restitution cases.

A humanitarian to her core, Secy is a passionate supporter of various charitable organizations around the world over the past two decades. She has dedicated herself to a range of good causes, in particular, access to education, right to medical treatments, combating human trafficking etc.

Secy is constantly on charitable field missions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Professor Ava Kwong is a world-renowned breast cancer expert and pioneer in surgical oncology. As the Daniel C K Yu Professor in Breast Cancer Research at The University of Hong Kong and Chief of Breast Surgery at several hospitals, she leads cutting-edge research in cancer genetics and treatment. Besides serving on multiple governmental cancer committees, Prof. Kwong founded the Hong Kong Hereditary Breast Cancer Family Registry in 2007 which is the only and first-ever charitable organization dedicated to help the high-risk families who have hereditary risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer due to gene mutations. As the first female Clinical Professor in Surgery in Hong Kong, she continues to push boundaries in breast cancer research and treatment while advocating for women in medicine.

Terence Tsz Wai Wong received his B.Eng. and M.Phil. degrees both from the University of Hong Kong in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He studied Biomedical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), under the tutelage of Prof. Lihong V. Wang (member of the National Academy of Engineering and Inventors) for his Ph.D. degree. Right after his Ph.D. graduation from WUSTL, he joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) in 2018. He was then promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. Prof. Wong is also the Associate Director of two research centers at HKUST, namely HKUST Research Center for Medical Imaging and Analysis (CMIA) and Collaborative Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation.
With the integration of optical/photoacoustic imaging and deep-learning algorithms, his research focuses on developing smart optical and photoacoustic devices to enable translational label-free and high-speed histological imaging, three-dimensional whole-organ imaging, and cancer-targeting deep-tissue imaging. He is the first author, co-author, or corresponding author of over 90 publications in top peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Photonics, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Science, etc.), conference papers, and book chapters, and has 9 U.S. provisional and 2 U.S. full patents. To create a societal impact, he founded a MedTech startup company, PhoMedics Limited, aiming to improve the healthcare system and patient care through innovative technology.