Daniel Fung, Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council of Hong Kong and also one of Hong Kong’s premier barristers and leading constitutional expert, who acted as Solicitor General of Hong Kong 1994-1998, has very kindly offered to give a Member Briefing to HKA members and Mayer Brown has very generously offered to host this at their offices.
This represents an exceptional opportunity to have a frank and open discussion on all aspects of the Basic Law including the current status and outlook.
Date: Thursday 25th May 2023
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Mayer Brown International LLP
Please contact communications@hkas.org.uk to book.
Daniel R. Fung, SBS SC KC JP FCIArb
Mr Fung comes from nearly 48 years practice at the bar with experience in both public and private sectors and in academia, was called to the English Bar in 1975 and the HK Bar in 1977, participated in the process of Hong Kong’s constitutional transition from British Crown Colony to a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China as a member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee from 1985 to 1990, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990, was the first person of Chinese extraction to serve as Solicitor General of Hong Kong (1994-98) doing so under the last British Governor Chris Patten and the first Chief Executive CH Tung, following which he took up successive appointments as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1998-99), Senior Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (1999), Distinguished Fulbright Scholar (2000), Chairman of the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority (2002-8) and Visiting Professor of Law at respectively Sun Yat Sen University (2004-7) and Peking University (2007-9).
Mr Fung served for the maximum four terms totalling 20 years as National Delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (2003-2023), Mr Fung is concurrently Vice-Chairman of Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council, Chairman of the Peace & Development Foundation being an official partner of the United Nations Development Program, President of the International Law Association (HK Chapter), Chairman of International Bridges to Justice, Vice-President of the Academy of Experts, Founding Chair of Cambridge Global Conversations, Vice Chairman of the American Renewable Energy Institute, Senior Fellow and former Vice Chairman of the Salzburg Global Seminar and serves on the boards of respectively the East West Center, the Global Thinkers Forum, the American Bar Association UNDP Legal Resource Unit, the China Law Society and the China-US Exchange Foundation. Mr Fung also serves as Chairman of Social Sciences Advisory Board of Lingnan University, Honorary Lecturer at HK University Department of Professional Legal Education, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK and an accredited expert to the World Economic Forum.
Mr. Fung has been honoured by the United Nations for his contribution to China’s attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals and by the HK Government for his contribution to HK’s constitutional development.