1. Li Ka-shing
Li Ka-shing
Why him? Hong Kong’s richest person is also one of the city’s most generous philanthropists—he founded the Li Ka Shing Foundation in 1980 and aims to donate at least a third of his more than US$30bn fortune to it.
Digging deep: Li has made multiple large donations, including earmarking HK$8bn worth of grants for Guangdong’s Shantou University, which he helped to establish.