Chan Wing Kin, Alfred
Chairman
Graduate
Towngas China
China
Biography
Mr. Chan Wing Kin, Alfred, B.B.S., Hon.F.E.I., Hon.F.I.I.U.S., C.Eng., F.H.K.I.E., F.I.Mech.E., F.I.G.E.M., M.Sc.(Eng), B.Sc.(Eng), aged 66, has been the Chairman and an Executive Director of the Company since March 2007. Mr. Chan is the Managing Director of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (“HKCG”) (a public listed company in Hong Kong and the controlling shareholder of the Company) and is a director of major local and overseas subsidiaries of HKCG. He is also the Vice Chairman of Shenzhen Gas Corporation Ltd. and a non-executive director of the tenth session of the board of directors of Shanghai Dazhong Public Utilities (Group) Co., Ltd., both of which are public listed companies. Mr. Chan is an Honorary President of The Hong Kong Management Association and a Vice Chairman of China Gas Association. He is a Member of the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mr. Chan received the Executive Award under the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards 2005, the Director of the Year Awards – Listed Companies (SEHK – Hang Seng Index Constituents) Executive Directors from The Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2006, the Leadership Award in Gas Industry Award 2015 from the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers and the Energy and Utilities Alliance of the United Kingdom, and was named consecutively as one of “The 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review in 2015 and 2016. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Hong Kong Institute of Education (now known as The Education University of Hong Kong) in 2016. Mr. Chan, a Chartered Engineer, is also Honorary Fellow of the Energy Institute of the United Kingdom, Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; Fellow of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers of the United Kingdom and Honorary Fellow of International Institute of Utility Specialists.
Research Interest
Oil and gas industry
