David Tang Chi-fai
Property Director
Civil Engineering
MTR Corporation Limited
Hong Kong
Biography
David Tang Chi-fai, 52, has been the Property Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate since October 2011. Mr Tang joined the Company in August 2004 as Contracts & Commercial Manager – China Business and was appointed Deputy Property Director in July 2011. He is responsible for all of the property development projects of the Company in Hong Kong from layout planning, scheme design through to project construction completion, as well as asset and leasing management of investment properties (including shopping malls and offices) and property management of office buildings and residential units. During his service with the Company, he held senior management positions in the Legal and Procurement Division, and the China and International Business Division before he was transferred to Property Division in 2009. Before joining the Company, Mr Tang was Commercial Manager – Hong Kong & China Region, and Deputy General Manager – Hong Kong & China Region for Acciona, S.A. He had almost 20 years’ working experience in contract administration, project management and quantity surveying in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong after starting his career as a Group Trainee of George Wimpey Plc. Mr Tang holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Quantity Surveying from the University of the West of England (formerly Bristol Polytechnic) in the United Kingdom. He is a chartered surveyor and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Mr Tang is a non-executive director of the Urban Renewal Authority of the HKSAR Government, and also a director and/or alternate director of some of the members of the Company’s group.
Research Interest
Civil Engineering