Paul Chow

Group General Counsel, Group Chief Sustainability Officer - Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

Mr Paul Chow is Group General Counsel and Group Chief Sustainability Officer at HKEX and is a member of its Management Committee.

Prior to joining HKEX in 2021, Mr Chow worked at Cathay Pacific Airways where he was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary. Before working in-house, he was a partner at Davis Polk Wardwell LLP, Linklaters and Slaughter and May.

Outside of HKEX, he is a member of the Supervisory Committee of Tracker Fund of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong SAR Government's Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, Funds Management Sub- Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, Resolvability Review Tribunal and Standing Committee on Compliance of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Mr Chow holds a Bachelor of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master of Science in Global Business from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Jackson Pek

Chief Corporate & Legal Affairs Officer and member of the Executive Committee - Amadeus

Jackson began his professional career as an attorney at the law firms White & Case and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in the U.S and Asia, and more recently was a senior attorney at IBM handling legal matters for the ASEAN countries and South Asia.

After joining Amadeus in 2006 and serving as General Counsel of its Asia Pacific region for 12 years, Jackson joined the AirAsia Group as Chief Legal Officer, overseeing the legal activities of its nine operating airlines and serving on the group’s Senior Management Committee. He returned to Amadeus in 2020 in charge of commercial and transactional legal matters globally, before being appointed Senior Vice President & General Counsel in 2022.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, Jackson has lectured at various universities in Asia, most notably the National University of Singapore Law School, where he served on the faculty for two years. A U.S. citizen, Jackson holds business and law degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and from New York University School of Law.

Anna Suchopar

General Counsel - Agoda.com

Anna is General Counsel and C-Suite member at Agoda, an online travel agency part of global travel group Booking Holdings Inc., the world’s leading provider of online travel and related services. She lives in Bangkok with her husband and daughter.

Prior to Agoda, Anna spent nearly 10 years of her career at the London-based global online fashion retailer ASOS.com, most recently as General Counsel & Company Secretary, leading ASOS’ Legal & Governance function.

Anna joined ASOS from Virgin Group, where she was IP Manager in Richard Branson’s brand management company, based in Geneva. She trained and qualified as a UK solicitor at Taylor Wessing LLP, practicing in TW’s market-leading Intellectual Property & Media Team.

Kwong Weng Wan

Group Chief Corporate Officer & Group General Counsel - Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd

Apart from being a long-serving Board member and Vice-President of SCCA, Kwong Weng serves as the Co-Chair for SCCA’s Real Estate Chapter.

Kwong Weng is also the Group Chief Corporate Officer and Group General Counsel of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, a real estate development and capital manager headquartered in Singapore. He takes charge of all legal, compliance and corporate secretarial matters as well as oversees all of administration, corporate communications, human resource and sustainability functions

Mr Wan is called to the Singapore Bar, where he was awarded the Justice FA Chua Memorial Prize, and is also on the Rolls of Solicitors (England & Wales). He was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2012 and Public Service Star (BBM) in 2017.

Mr Wan is also appointed as a Member of the Valuation Review Board and the Corporate Law Advisory Panel since 2019. In addition, he is Secretary/Member of the SMU Advisory Board for the Real Estate Programme.

Mr Wan is also appointed as a Member of the Reform of Legal Education Standing Committee and, since, 2019, the Valuation Review Board as well as the Corporate Law Advisory Panel.