Sir Chung-kong Chow , FREng, FCGI, FIChemE (; born 9 September 1950), also known as Chow Chung-kong and C.K. Chow, is a former non-official member of the

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, and the chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which owns the Hong Kong stock exchange. Chow is a former

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of the MTR Corporation, and was formerly chief executive officer of Brambles Industries PLC, a global support services company with dual listings in the United Kingdom and Australia, before resigning on 25 September 2003 after being blamed by shareholders at the

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the year before for making mistakes. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive of GKN PLC, a leading engineering company based in the United Kingdom and before that he spent 20 years with the BOC Group PLC and was appointed a director of its board and chief executive of its Gases Division in 1993. Chow is a

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. He holds BS and MS degrees in

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from the

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and the

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respectively. He also holds an MBA degree from The

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and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program of

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. He was awarded an Honorary

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degree by the

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in 2001. Chow was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2000 for his contribution to industry. He is a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the

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, the Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and as the Council's representative to serve on the Board of Trustees of its Shaw College. Chow is also a member of the general committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and the

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Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a non-executive director of Standard Chartered plc and until the end of 2010 was non-executive chairman of

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. He was appointed chairman of HKEx in April 2012 and as a

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at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001. The Hong Kong media once described Chow as one of the most powerful Chinese men in the

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.Macalister, Terry
"Brambles' embattled chief quits"
''The Guardian'', 26 September 2003.

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