Wong, Peter T. S.

Biography

Peter Wong Tung Shun is Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He is also a Group Managing Director and a member of the HSBC Group Executive Committee.

Mr. Wong joined HSBC in 2005. From April 2005 to January 2010, he was Group General Manager and Executive Director, Hong Kong and mainland China, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, before assuming the position of Chief Executive for Asia-Pacific in February 2010. He became Deputy Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in May 2013.

He is Chairman and non-executive director of HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited and a non-executive director of Hang Seng Bank Limited. He is also a Director of Serai Limited, HSBC’s digital trading proposition for SMEs.

He also holds roles with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s Belt and Road Committee, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. He has also been invited to advise on a number of committees/councils in mainland China, including as a Member of the 13th National Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Affairs for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an Economic Advisor to the Governor for the International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong, a Member of Chongqing Mayor’s International Economic Advisory Council, and a Board Member of the China Banking Association.

Mr. Wong’s banking career began in 1980 when he joined Citibank. He then moved to Standard Chartered Bank in 1997.

Mr. Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1951. He was educated at Indiana University in the US and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, an MBA in Marketing and Finance and an MSc in Computer Science.

Since 2002, Mr. Wong has been appointed as an adjunct professor by CUHK Business School’s Department of Marketing.