Jack So | |||||||||||
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蘇澤光 | |||||||||||
Born | 1945 (age 78–79) Guangzhou, China | ||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Occupation | Chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 蘇澤光 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 苏泽光 | ||||||||||
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Jack So Chak-kwong, GBM, GBS, OBE, JP (traditional Chinese: 蘇澤光; simplified Chinese: 苏泽光) is the chairman of the Board of Airport Authority Hong Kong from June 2015. He is a former chairman and executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), former chairman and Chief Executive of the MTR Corporation, and former deputy chairman and Group managing director of PCCW.
In October 2013, he was appointed Chairman of the Consultative Committee on Economic and Trade Co-operation between Hong Kong and the Mainland. In January 2013 he was appointed a non-official member of the Economic Development Commission, and Convenor of its Working Group on Convention and Exhibition Industries and Tourism.
He was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, Chairman of Harrow International School Hong Kong, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Honorary Consultant to the Mayor of San Francisco, International Business Advisor to the Mayor of Beijing, and a member of Lantau Development Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Government.
He is an independent non-executive Director of AIA Group and China Resources Power, and senior advisor to Credit Suisse, Greater China. So is a former independent director of HSBC and Cathay Pacific.
A Justice of Peace, So were awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2011 and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2017.[1]