Canning Fok

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Fok. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Canning Fok and the Chinese-style name is Fok Kin-ning.
Canning Fok
NationalityBritish[1]
EducationChartered accountant, with a bachelor's degree from Saint John's University in the US[2]

Diploma in Financial Administration from the University of New England in Australia.[2]
Occupation(s)Group managing director, Hutchison Whampoa[2]

Chairs numerous Hutchison businesses, including Hutchison Telecom International and HongKong Electric Holdings
Canning Fok
Traditional Chinese霍建寧
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuò Jiànníng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingfok3 gin3 ning4

Canning Fok Kin-ning (Chinese: 霍建寧; born 1951 in Hong Kong)[2] is a Hong Kong business executive. He is a director or chair of numerous management board in companies of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa. He is hailed as the "King of Employees" since he has been one of the Hong Kong's top-five taxpayers in the past few years.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Kin Ning Canning FOK - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Company House. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d The Independent "A day in the life of Canning Fok: Hutchison chief makes $25bn bet on a bright future for its 3 mobile group", The Independent, 18 November 2006
  3. ^ "Hong Kong's former best-paid executive puts two houses up for sale". South China Morning Post. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  4. ^ Asia, Tatler. "Canning Fok". Tatler Asia. Retrieved 2022-05-12.