Leo Kwok Kee Leung

Biography

  Aged 58, he was appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company on 1 July 2009 and has been re-designated as an Executive Director of the Company on 1 October 2009. He is also a director of various subsidiaries of the Company. Ir. Dr. LEUNG joined as a director of a subsidiary of the Company in 1993. He was previously in-charge of the architecture, engineering and construction of all in-house projects of the Company for about 10 years before he was transferred to Hopewell Highway Infrastructure Limited (“HHI”) as an executive director in 2003. He is an experienced multi-disciplinary engineer and an expert in designing and applying slipform and climbform techniques. He worked for Brown & Root and Ove Arup & Partners before joining the Company and had acquired a wide range of design and construction experiences in The United Kingdom, Europe, Africa and Asia in highways, bridges, buildings, dams and tunnel structures. Ir. Dr. LEUNG graduated from Imperial College of the University of London with a Master of Science degree with Distinction in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. He was also awarded a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in 1983 from from the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) in Civil Engineering, as well as the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Prize for his outstanding undergraduate performance. He was further awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from his alma mater, the University of Sunderland (England) in 2016. He also attained the PRC National Class 1 Registered Structural Engineers qualification in 2004. Ir. Dr. LEUNG served as committee members to a number of Professional Institutions and was the Chairman of the Civil Division (2011-2012) of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (“HKIE”), and has been a Council Member of the HKIE since 2012. He was also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Branch of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (2006-2007). He was elected as an Election Committee Member by the Engineering Subsector for the nomination and election of the Chief Executive of HKSAR in 2012. He was an Executive Director of HHI and responsible for the planning, design, engineering and construction of projects within HHI from 2003 to 2009.  

Research Interest

  Business Management, Infrastructure and Architecture