Laura Cha

Laura Cha
Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
President	Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang
Convenor	Dr. Chun-ying Leung
HK Deupty to the NPC
In office 11th NPC
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Chairman	Wu Bangguo
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Born	1949 (age 61–62)
Alma mater	BA, University of Wisconsin JD, Santa Clara University

Laura May Lung Cha (Chinese: 史美倫; c. 1950^[1]), GBS, JP, is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Cha was Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 2001 to 2004. She was appointed to the post by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and became the first person outside mainland China to join the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China at the vice-ministerial rank. Prior to her post at the CSRC, she worked at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission from 1991 to early 2001, becoming its Deputy Chairman in 1998.

Among other public service, Cha serves as the Hong Kong delegate to the 11th National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the CSRC, Chairman of the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Millstein Center of Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale University.

Cha earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin and a juris doctor degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law.^[2] She practiced law in the 1980s in San Francisco with Pillsbury Madison and Sutro, and in Hong Kong with Coudert Brothers. She was a former member of the Committee of 100 in the United States. She was appointed a Director of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 1 March 2011.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Greater China regulation and policy expert joins HSBC board" (Press release). HSBC Holdings plc. 25 February 2011. http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/newsroom/news/2011/expert-joins-hsbc-board#top. Retrieved 17 April 2011. 
2. ^ "Laura May-Lung Cha". The State Bar of California. 2010. http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/107938. Retrieved 17 April 2011. 

External links

• The Hon. Laura Cha, GBS, JP

Order of precedence
Previous: York Chow Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food	Hong Kong order of precedence Non-official member of the Executive Council	Succeeded by Charles Lee Non-official member of the Executive Council

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