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MEMBERS OF BOARD AND PROFILES 81 Dr the Honourable Ann CHIANG Lai-wan, SBS, JP Dr Chiang Lai-wan has been a member of the Legislative Council since 2012. She is committee advisor of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. She held a Master of Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was awarded Honorary Fellow by the City University of Hong Kong. She was previously Member of the Hong Kong Regional Council, Member of the Town Planning Board, Member of Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Membe r o f Spo r t s Commi s s i on , Membe r o f Administrative Appeals Board, and Council Members of Lingnan University, City University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong. Mr Edward CHOW Kwong-fai, JP Mr Edward Chow is the founder of China Infrastructure Group and a chartered accountant. He is a core member of the OECD/World Bank Asian Corporate Governance Roundtable, a council member and chairman of the Greater China Chapter of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an advisor of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong. He was also a standing committee member and convenor of the Eleventh Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Zhejiang Province. Mr Chow is currently a Court Member and a Council Member of the University of Hong Kong. Mr Chow was a past president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a past chairman of the Professional Accountants in Business Committee of the International Federation of Accountants, a past deputy chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a former expert advisor of the Accounting Standards Committee of the Ministry of Finance, the PRC. In business, Mr Chow serves as an independent non-executive director of Wing Lung Bank, Melco International Development Limited, Redco Properties Group Limited and China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited; and served as an independent non-executive director of COSCO Pacific Limited and China Merchants Bank. Mr Laurence HO Hoi-ming Mr Ho holds a Master of City Planning degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked in the Centre for Housing, Building and Planning of the United Nations in New York for one year before joining the Government of Hong Kong in 1978. Between 1978 and 2003, Mr Ho held various senior posts in the Hong Kong Government, including Assistant Director of Housing, Principal Assistant Secretary for Home Affairs, Deputy Secretary for Health and Welfare, and Deputy Director for Leisure and Cultural Services. He worked as Chief Executive at the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute between 2003 and 2005. In the following 10 years, he wrote commentaries on public policy issues in newspapers, and was often invited by TV and radio stations to comment on public policy issues. He played host to a current affairs program of Now TV between 2010 and 2011. From 2003 to early 2016, Mr Ho had been teaching part time at HKU Space, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and other educational institutes for training programs for visiting mainland officials and senior executives. Since summer 2013, Mr Ho has served as Managing Director of Kingsford Far East Limited. He has been serving the community through sitting on boards of NGOs, social organisations and secondary school. Professor Eddie HUI Chi-man, MH Professor Eddie Hui is Professor of Real Estate at the Department of Building and Real Estate, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He graduated from Hong Kong University with first class honours, scholarly prizes and scholarships. With full Commonwealth scholarships, he obtained his MPhil and PhD at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK, where he is now a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Also, he is visiting and/or adjunct professor at various universities and research centres, both locally and overseas. His expertise is in real estate, urban land and housing and his research papers were published in international academic journals. Professor Hui is currently a member of the Appeal Tribunal Panel under the Buildings Ordinance. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Hong Kong Housing Society.