Ben Hung

Ben Hung became Standard Chartered’s Asia CEO in 2021, and is also the chairman of Standard Chartered Bank China. He made history in 2017 when he became the first Chinese person to take on a global management role at the British bank, as chief executive of retail banking. He joined Standard Chartered in 1992 and has worked in corporate, commercial, and retail banking.

He is a generous giver of his time to official bodies: he is currently a member of the Hong Kong chief executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development, and of the General Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and a director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing; while in the past, he has been chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks, and a board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority and the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. He is married with two children.