Cheung, Leong（張亮）

Biography

Professor Leong Cheung is currently the Chief Strategy Officer in the Exchange Fund Investment Office of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He was the Executive Director of Charities & Community at The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) from 2014 to 2022. In this capacity, he co-founded and served as the co-chair of the Hong Kong Chapter of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Prior to joining the HKJC, Professor Cheung was the Operating Partner of Bain Capital. Before that, he was the Managing Director of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain at Esquel Group, the founder and CEO of an education focused internet venture, and a senior consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

Professor Cheung is active in the community. He is the co-founder of RunOurCity, an innovative social enterprise with the aim of transforming life through running. He currently serves as the chairperson of the HKSAR Government’s Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food. He is an Advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, former independent Director of Kerry Properties (HKSE 0683) and the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. He was a Council and Court (Deputy Chairman) member of the Lingnan University.

Professor Cheung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Business Administration and obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Teaching Areas

Strategy
Philanthropy

Research Interests

Philanthropy
ESG

• Awards & Honours
  • Chapter Honoree, Beta Gamma Sigma CUHK Chapter, 2022
  • Honorary Fellowship, Lingnan University, 2019

• Academic/Professional Services

  Professional/Public Services

  • Independent Non-Executive Director, Kerry Properties Limited, 2022-Present
  • Chairman, Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food, 2020-Present
  • Non-Executive Director & Audit Committee Chairman, HKMC Annuity Limited, 2017-2022
  • Non-Executive Director, Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited, 2016-2022
  • Member, Elderly Commission, 2015-2021
  • Member, Hong Kong Quality Migrant Admission Scheme Advisory Committee, Jul 2010-Jun 2016

  Community Services

  • Co-founder/Chairman, RunOurCity, 2021
  • Founding Director & Honorary Advisor, Social Venture Hong Kong, 2007-2021
  • Trustee, Esquel-Y.L.Yang Education Foundation, 2022-2013

  Academic Services

  • Adjunct Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015-2020
  • Adjunct Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2014-2017
  • Deputy Chairman, Court of Lingnan University, Aug 2013-Aug 2014
  • Council & Court member, Lingnan University, Oct 2009-Aug 2014