Thomas Jefferson

Biography

He is the Managing Director of the Company as well as the Managing Director of Hopewell Highway Infrastructure Limited, the listed subsidiary of the Company, and a director of various subsidiaries of the Company. He graduated with high honours from Princeton University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He then worked in Japan as an engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for three years before returning to full-time studies at Stanford University, where he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree in 1999. In 2015, he was conferred an honorary fellowship by Lingnan University.  Mr. WU joined the Company in 1999 as Manager of the Executive Committee Office, and was promoted to Group Controller the following year. He has been involved in the review of the Company’s operational performance, strategic planning and organisational effectiveness, and has upgraded its financial and management accounting systems. An Executive Director of the Company since 2001, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2002, Deputy Managing Director in 2003, Co-Managing Director in 2007, and re-designated as Managing Director in 2009.  Mr. WU is active in public service in both Hong Kong and Mainland China. He serves in a number of advisory roles at different levels of government. In Mainland China, he is a member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and was a Standing Committee member and a member of the Huadu District Committee of The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, among other public service capacities.  In Hong Kong, Mr. WU’s major public service appointments include being a member of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, a member of the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the "HKSARG"), a member of the Energy Advisory Committee of the Environment Bureau of the HKSARG, a member of the Committee on Real Estate Investment Trusts of Securities and Futures Commission and a Vice Patron of the Community Chest of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Business School Advisory Council of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In addition, he is an Independent Non-executive Director of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited, a company listed on NASDAQ Global Select Market in USA. Previously, he was a council member of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Baptist University, a member of the Court of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a board member of the Asian Youth Orchestra.  In addition to his professional and public service engagements, Mr. WU is mostly known for his passion for ice hockey, as well as the sport’s development in Hong Kong and the region. He is the Vice President (Asia/Oceania) of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Co-founder and Chairman of the Hong Kong Amateur Hockey Club and Hong Kong Academy of Ice Hockey, as well as Chairman of the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Officials Association. He is also the Honorary President of the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Association - the national sports association of ice hockey in Hong Kong, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Ice Hockey Association, Honorary President of the Macau Ice Sports Federation and Honorary Chairman of the Ice Hockey Association of Taipei Municipal Athletics Federation.  In 2006, the World Economic Forum selected Mr. WU as a “Young Global Leader”. He was also awarded the “Director of the Year Award” by the Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2010, the “Asian Corporate Director Recognition Award” by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and named “Asia’s Best CEO (Investor Relations)” in 2012, 2013 and 2014.  Mr. WU is the son of Sir Gordon Ying Sheung WU, the Chairman and a substantial shareholder of the Company and Lady WU Ivy Sau Ping KWOK, a Non-executive Director and a substantial shareholder of the Company, and the cousin of Mr. Guy Man Guy WU, an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company.

Research Interest

  Business Management, Infrastructure and Architecture