SCPKU Advisory Council

Ilaria Chan

Chairperson of the Board at the TechForGood Institute

Ilaria Chan serves as the Group Advisor on Tech & Social Impact for Grab, focusing on advancing diplomacy, thought leadership and social impact reach for the Technology Decacorn startup. Prior to assuming this role, she served as a Corporate Finance executive and helped drive Grab's historical > $5billion Series H fundraise - the largest in the history of Southeast Asia. Ilaria was formerly an Executive Director at the Sales & Trading division of Goldman Sachs New York where she was a top quartile performer at the bank, focusing on Asia Equities. She is currently a global keynote speaker, a private investor, serves on the Board of Trustees of humanitarian organizations CareForChildren and Emancipaction, an Operating Advisor to Owl Ventures (largest Education Tech-focused venture capital fund in the world), an advisory committee member to Global SF's Women Empowerment Initiative, and serves on the advisory board of British real estate development firm Kinrise. Ilaria holds a B.A. from Stanford University. She is also a freelance singer, concert pianist, food critic & restaurant judge, culinary school graduate, actress in musicals & plays and an avid scuba diver.

Andrew Fong

Asset & Wealth Management, Hong Kong, Goldman Sachs

Andrew is a managing director in Private Wealth Management (PWM) in Hong Kong, working closely with significant families, individuals, and private companies across Asia Pacific. He has been a member of the Advisors Council in Asia since its inception, as well as a member of Global Top Advisors. Previously, Andrew was part of the Securities Division and helped build the retail distribution franchise in Asia from 2005 to 2007.

He joined Goldman Sachs in 2004 as a financial analyst in PWM and was named a managing director in 2017. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Andrew worked in the Investment Banking Division at JPMorgan in San Francisco. Andrew earned a BA in International Relations and MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. He also attended the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.

Kristine Li

General Manager, Portfolio Leasing Department, Henderson Land Development Company Limited

Kristine Li is the General Manager of Portfolio Leasing (1) Department at Henderson Land Development, one of the leading real estate developers in Hong Kong. She oversees the Group’s investment properties in Hong Kong and has over 10 years of experience in property leasing, marketing and asset management field. Li holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from The University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, USA. She currently serves as President for Stanford Club of Hong Kong. She is also a Global Governing Trustee for Urban Land Institute, and serves on the board for several philanthropic organizations, including as a Director for The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, and for Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation. She is also the founder of HART, a nonprofit arts platform that supports local artists and their growth through the operation of a community studio, HART Haus, project grants, public engagement programs and international artist residencies.

Chien Lee

Chairman of the CUHK Medical Center

Supervisor of St. Paul’s Co-educational College and Primary School in Hong Kong

Governor of Lee Hysan Foundation

Chairman of Bei Shan Tang Foundation

Non-executive director of Hysan Development Company

Chien Lee is a native of Hong Kong who spends most of his time working with not-for- proﬁt organizations, particularly in the education sector. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematical Sciences and in Operations Research respectively in 1975 and MBA in 1979 from Stanford University and has served his alma mater in many capacities, including on the University’s Board of Trustees, the Boards of the Stanford Alumni Association and Stanford Health Care, the Advisory Councils of the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, the Graduate School of Business, and the School of Engineering and is currently on the Board of Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in in the Behavioral Sciences and the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Education.

Michael McFaul

Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science

Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Ambassador McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). He has authored several books, including most recently the New York Times bestseller, From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia. He is currently writing a book on great powers relations in the 21st century. Professor McFaul was the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University from June to August of 2015. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post.

Philip Sohmen

Executive Deputy Chairman, YK Pao Education Foundation

Co-Founder, YK Pao School

Mr. Sohmen is a dedicated educator and the Co-Founder of YK Pao School in Shanghai, a pioneering not-for-profit school named after his grandfather Sir YK Pao, the renowned Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. YK Pao School was one of the first schools to allow Chinese students and international students to study together, offering a unique bilingual educational program pioneering an international approach in delivering the Chinese curriculum and cultural studies alongside a focus on whole person education. Philip also serves on the board of the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award and the China Advisory Group of Oxford University. He is the Co-Founder of ChinaOne.Ningbo, China’s most successful professional high-speed sailing team. He is a graduate of Eton College, Oxford University and Stanford University, also formerly competing internationally in swimming for Hong Kong.

Debby Soo

CEO of OpenTable

Debby Soo is the CEO of OpenTable, bringing expertise in product-first commercialization, strategic partnerships and international growth. She is also a founding member and co-head of Booking Holdings’ Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee. Prior to OpenTable, she spent 10+ years building KAYAK’s travel commercial team, establishing the APAC business, and then overseeing global business development for both KAYAK and OpenTable. She started her career at Citi as an investment banking analyst for the technology sector before joining Google’s Strategic Partnership Group where she focused on global content acquisition and partnerships for Google Maps. Debby holds a BA and MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. She is currently a board member of EverCommerce (EVCM).

Ann Bennett Spence

Former Managing Director, Head of Governance and Strategic Planning Practice for Endowed Institutions at Cambridge Associates LLC

Ann Bennett Spence (Bian An) was a Managing Director, Cambridge Associates LLC, the global investment firm based in Boston. Previously she was an associate dean (finance) at Harvard, a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, and an auditor at KPMG. She has degrees from Wellesley College (BA Economics), Harvard (MA East Asian Studies), and Stanford (MBA). She is a daughter of Zhou Nianci, who graduated from Yanjing University (now Peking University) in 1938. She is also the eldest granddaughter of Liang Sishun, and eldest great-grandchild of Liang Qichao. Having spent her early childhood in China, [Ann] now frequently studies her first language Chinese/Putonghua and writes in English under the pen name of Bian An, which was her given name at birth.

Warren Wu

Managing Director and Head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) and Private Financing Markets (PFM) for Southeast Asia and India for UBS in Singapore

Warren is currently a Managing Director and Head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) and Private Financing Markets (PFM) for Southeast Asia and India for UBS in Singapore. His focus has been on developing the firm’s presence with New Economy companies across the region. Previously, he worked for JPMorgan and Credit Suisse as a technology banker and capital markets specialist in Hong Kong and in Silicon Valley. Warren graduated with distinction from Stanford University where he received his B.A. in Economics and was Phi Beta Kappa.