NewWorld Development Company Limited
DIRECTORS’ PROFILE
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DIRECTORS’ PROFILE
Appointed as Director in October 1972, Executive Director in 1973, became
Managing Director from 1989 and Chairman from March 2012. Dr. Cheng
is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the chairman of the
Nomination Committee and Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
of the Company. Dr. Cheng is the chairman and managing director of New
World China Land Limited, the chairman and executive director of NWS
Holdings Limited, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited and International
Entertainment Corporation, the chairman and non-executive director of New
World Department Store China Limited and Newton Resources Ltd, an
independent non-executive director of HKR International Limited and Hang
Seng Bank Limited, and a non-executive director of SJM Holdings Limited, all
of them are listed public companies in Hong Kong. He was a non-executive
director of Lifestyle International Holdings Limited, a listed public company
in Hong Kong, up to his retirement on 4 May 2015. Dr. Cheng is also the
chairman of New World Hotels (Holdings) Limited and a director of certain
subsidiaries of the Group. He is a director of Cheng Yu Tung Family (Holdings)
Limited, Cheng Yu Tung Family (Holdings II) Limited, Chow Tai Fook Capital
Limited, Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited and Chow Tai Fook Enterprises
Limited, all of them are substantial shareholders of the Company. Dr. Cheng
is the chairman of the Advisory Council for The Better Hong Kong Foundation
and a Standing Committee Member of the Twelfth Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference of The People’s Republic of China. In 2001, Dr. Cheng
was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region. Dr. Cheng is the father of Dr. Cheng Chi-Kong,
Adrian and Ms. Cheng Chi-Man, Sonia, the brother-in-law of Mr. Doo Wai-Hoi,
William, the brother of Mr. Cheng Kar-Shing, Peter and the uncle of Mr. Cheng
Chi-Heng.
Dr. Cheng Kar-Shun,
Henry
GBS (Aged 68)
