Ronnie C. Chan

Ronnie C. Chan is chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited, two publicly listed companies in Hong Kong. Hang Lung Properties, a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index, is one of the biggest among Hong Kong's major property companies. In the past decade, Hang Lung has moved increasingly into mainland China and is investing $5 billion to develop world-class commercial complexes for long-term holding. Ronnie co-founded the Morningside Group. In the past two decades Morningside and its associates owned and managed companies focusing on manufacturing, public transport operations, outdoor advertising, media, healthcare, online game operators, high-tech, and biotech investments in mainland China, developmental capital investments in Southeast Asia, manufacturing and distribution in Europe, and service industries, biotech, and other venture capital investments in North America.

Ronnie chairs the executive committees of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute and the Better Hong Kong Foundation, serves as convenor of the Hong Kong Development Forum and advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and is founder and chairman of the China Heritage Fund. He is a vice chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a director of the board of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and the Committee of 100. He also serves or has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks and universities, including the World Economic Forum; East-West Center; Eisenhower Fellowships; Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; the Indian School of Business; and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he received an honorary doctorate in social sciences. He is a former director of Standard Chartered PLC and Motorola, Inc., and was a government-appointed non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. He is the founding chairman emeritus of the Asia Business Council and a former chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council.

Ronnie received his M.B.A. from USC in 1976. He has served on the USC Board of Trustees since 1995.