Promoting and supporting figurative contemporary art in Hong Kong 

Li served as Regional Chief Executive, Asia Pacific of Richemont from 2006 until his retirement, where he was responsible for overseeing and cultivating the presence and development of some of the world's most coveted luxury Maisons in the region.

 

Currently, Li serves as President of The French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong, Board member of Las Vegas Sands and Remy Cointreau, Senior Advisor of SIA Partners and on the Asia Advisory Board of Phillips.

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Bassam Salem is an independent consultant and active Board member focusing on governance and long-term strategy by setting policies, evaluating business decisions and executive performance, and fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities.

 

Salem is a board member of the Swiss Chamber in Hong Kong, chairing the finance committee. He is a former Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company and the former CEO of Citi Private Bank in Asia. In addition, he was a founding partner of EFG Bank in Zurich.

Hing Chao is the executive chairman of Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Limited, founder of Intangible Cultural Heritage Earthpulse Society, and Hong Kong Culture Festival. 

 

Over the past two decades, Hing has pursued a cross-sectoral career in business, education, culture and heritage, and philanthropy. A well-known independent producer for arts and culture in Hong Kong, his diverse body of works straddles visual arts, performing arts, new media arts, and intangible cultural heritage. Since 2009, he has produced large-scale public festivals and pioneered the use of new media for exhibitions in museums and galleries, including “Hunters, Warriors, Spirits: Nomadic Art of North China” (2022), “Way of Sword: Warrior Traditions in China and Italy” (2021), and “300 Years of Hakka Kung Fu ─ Digital Vision of its Legacy and Future” (2016). In performing arts, Hing supervised several major award-winning productions such as The Legend of Lanling (2024) and Convergence (2020), both with Hong Kong Dance Company, and Romeo + Juliet (2021) with Hong Kong Ballet. For his outstanding contribution to cultural and arts developments in Hong Kong, Hing was awarded by Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme in 2017.

 

Hing is also the founder and executive director of International Guoshu Association, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong, and sits on the Board of Trustees, Hong Kong Maritime Museum.

Joyce Kie Hung Liu is a supporter of the contemporary art world as a patron and collector. A member of the Tate International Council, she also served as Board member of PERFORMA, New York from 2017 until 2022. She is a member of the Asia Advisory Board of Phillips and M+ Founding Patrons. She has supported artists in exhibiting their works at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and museums in New York for over thirty years and has also hosted regular events in London and Hong Kong to promote and celebrate artists, curators, galleries and collectors alike.

 

She had served for many years as an Executive Committee Member of Jiangsu Province Chinese Overseas Friendship Association, as an Executive Committee Member of Beijing Chinese Overseas Friendship Association and as Vice Chairman of Federation of HK Jiangsu Community Organisations.

Since 2018, Chao Sih-ming has been a Council Member of Lingnan University, and in 2022, Council Member, Vocational Training Council, Hong Kong. In addition, she is Honorary Consul, Norwegian Honorary Consulate, Hong Kong; a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China; Executive Vice Chairman of Federation of Jiangsu Community Organisation; and Executive Vice Chairman of Wuxi Chamber of Commerce and Advisor of Wusih Residents (H.K.) Association.  In 2021, she was appointed as a member of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK).

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Currently, Chao Sih-ming is Chair of the External Advisory Group, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In May 2023, she was appointed member of the Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development by The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Viola Chen Cheong currently serves as the Director of Startune Limited, a non-profit organisation that introduces and promotes art therapy to underprivileged youths in Hong Kong through co-creating programmes with young ambassadors. Her passion for philanthropy is deeply rooted in her family tradition, with her family founding a number of non-profit kindergartens in Hong Kong.

 

Chen Cheong is the co-founder of design gallery Maison Huit and jewelry company Scipian – platforms that brought designers and their unique creations from around the globe to Hong Kong, offering a space for education, exchange and encounters.