IBES INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS



CLARIE LO

BBA, LLM, MSc

 

 

Ms. Clarie Lo is a distinguished business leader with around 30 years of experience in the government, financial and business sectors. A former senior government official, Clarie had held the positions of Deputy Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury, Commissioner of Narcotics, Deputy Director of Housing, and helped in the formulation of policies on trade and industrial development, energy and district administration. 

In 2001, Clarie represented Hong Kong as the 13th President of the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on anti-money laundering based in OECD, Paris. After the 911 attacks on the US, she steered the FATF to formulate the Special Recommendations and led other international organizations to fight against terrorist financing as well as money laundering.

In 2007, Clarie assisted the first Chief Executive of HKSAR and CCPCC Deputy Chairman, the Honorable Tung Chee-Hwa, to form the China-United States Exchange Foundation and served as its founding CEO. In 2011, she was appointed an Executive Director of the Dah Sing Banking Group in HK. Clarie later became the Managing Director of K.S. Sze & Sons Ltd., a prestigious jewelry chain founded in 1923.

Clarie’s community services include non-official member of the HKSAR Basic Law Promotion Steering Committee, member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Financial Disputes Resolution Centre, Counsellor of the CUSEF, Director of the HK Institute of Business Ethics and Sustainability, Board of Advisors of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Chapter of HK, Chairman of the Alliance of Anti-Drug Professional Association, Director of the Hong Kong ASEAN Economic Cooperation Foundation and is an active member of international and local women organizations. Clarie holds a LLM from the University of London, a Master in Management Science from the Stanford University Business School and a BBA from CUHK. She had attended programs at Harvard Business School, Tsinghwa University, Oxford University and China's National Institute of Public Administration. 



DR VINCENT KWAN

BSocSc, MCom, DBA, CPA, FIMC, AMIHRM, SMHKIM

 

 

Dr Vincent Kwan is currently an Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Engineering, and the Associate Director of the HKU-Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation. He is also a Special Consultant in the Central Policy Unit and a Member of the HKSAR Government Public Affairs Forum as well as a Senior Honorary Consultant of the HKU Journalism and Media Studies Center.

Vincent has extensive experience in advising companies in Hong Kong and China on Human Capital Management, Sales and Marketing, Business Strategy, Operation and Finance. He served as a Non-Executive Director for listed companies in Hong Kong, China and Australia.

Vincent obtained his BSc degree from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Commerce from the Hitotsubashi University, Japan and a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Professionally, he is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of CPA (Australia). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, Senior Member of Hong Kong Institute of Marketing, an Associate Member of the Institute of Human Resources Management, Member of the Executive Committee, Hong Kong Economics Association and Director of Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. 



DR ANGUS YIP

DBA(Wales),MSt. (Cantab), ALM (Harvard)
Chartered Banker (U.K.)

 

 

Dr Angus Yip is a Chartered Banker (U.K.) and is a veteran corporate banker (trade finance and syndication) and External Asset Manager for more than 25 years.

Angus is now working with listed companies on their ESG reports. He used to work with a sizable private equity fund for the ESG performance of its portfolio companies.

Angus is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Institute of China Business, the University of Hong Kong SPACE and Visiting Lecturer at IFE of Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Angus was awarded “Outstanding Teacher” at HKU SPACE in 2017.

Angus completed the GRI Certified Training Program for sustainability reporting. From 2014-17, Angus was invited to deliver seminars on ESG reporting and sustainability topics at Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Federation of Industry, Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Angus also conducted part-time teaching on the modules of “Corporate Sustainability” and “Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility” for the senior executives from mainland China at Institute of China Business, HKU SPACE. Angus was one of the assessors for “The Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneur Awards 2013/14” in U.K.

Angus did the following works related to sustainability:
- Collaborated with his master’s dissertation supervisor at Cambridge, Dr. Nancy Bocken, to publish an academic paper “Sustainable Business Models for Banking in Hong Kong” in the Journal of Cleaner Production. (Impact Factor in 2016: 6.207, published in January 2018)

https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0959652617324988

- Wrote a book chapter in the book “Developing a Sustainability Mindset” published by Routledge in April 2018

Angus is a Director and Founding Member of WISDP (World Institute of Sustainable Development Planner), a strategic partner of UNESCO Hong Kong and is a member of United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN PRME) Working Group on Sustainability Mindset

Angus was educated in the U.K. and obtained double Master Degrees from the University of Cambridge (Sustainability) and Lancaster University (Accounting & Finance) respectively. He has also obtained Master degree in Management from Harvard University.Angus obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Wales TSD, his research area:  ESG reporting

 

 

VICTOR S.C. YEONG
BA (3D & Marketing)

 

 Mr. Victor S.C. Yeong is currently Group General Manager of PPC Media Group and a Board Member of IBES. He is an authority in marketing and advertising in Hong Kong and China with more than three decades of accomplishments in the advertising industry helping international and local clients to create and elevate brand equity.

Victor formerly held leadership positions in leading international advertising agencies including world’s No.1 Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson, Lintas, BJK&E, Meridian, Hakuhodo, Havas Sports looking after a wide spectrum of Clients in Hong Kong, China and overseas.

Among Victor’s clients were hundreds of world class brands like Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Nabisco, Remy Martin, Martell, Hennessy, Winston, Camel, Salem, Kent, IBM, HP, NEC, Aiwa, Canon, Minolta, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba, OKI, Kao, Konica, Swatch, Rolls Royce, BMW, Volvo, Shanghai VW, Changchun Yiqi VW, SWGM, BaoJun Motor, BOC, Heng Seng Bank … just to name a few.

In addition, Victor was also a Board Advisor to the Chinese SOE conglomerate, Luhua Group, as well as being the General Manager of Havas Sports China. His great contribution was to help local Chinese companies to create Chinese famous brands. Many of these are now ranked among top 500 Chinese brands worth billions of CNY.

Victor obtained a BA degree in 3D and Marketing from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also won many prestigious branding and advertising awards from prominent professional media bodies in Hong Kong and China. On the leisure side, Victor is an active columnist of several popular magazines like Car and Driver, Automobile, and Photo Pictorial.