Dr Y K PANG

Dr YK Pang retired from the Jardine Matheson Group on 31 December 2025 after a career spanning 41 years with the company.  He was the former Chairman of Hong Kong for Jardine Matheson, Deputy Managing Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited and Deputy Chairman of Jardine Matheson Limited. He was also chairman of Jardine Pacific, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Gammon Construction and Zung Fu, and a director of Jardine Matheson (China) Limited, Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental.

Dr Pang joined the Jardine Matheson Group in 1984 and worked in a variety of positions in its trading, marketing and retail sectors. He became a director of Jardine Pacific in 1995 overseeing its restaurants businesses. In 1999, he moved to Jardine Motors as chief executive officer of Zung Fu, before becoming executive chairman in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed as chief executive of Hongkong Land, before joining the Jardine Matheson Board in 2011.

Dr Pang is active in public service and holds membership of several government committees. He is also the Special Counsellor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Dr Pang was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board from 2019 to 2025 and the former Chairman of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service and former Chairman of the Council of the Education University of Hong Kong among other public appointments. In professional bodies, Dr Pang served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce from 2014 to 2016, Chairman of the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2018, and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Management Association from 2021 to 2024.

Dr Pang holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Edinburgh. He completed the Global Leadership Program at Harvard Business School in 1998. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate degree by the University of Edinburgh in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate degree in Education by the Education University of Hong Kong in 2018.

Dr Pang was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star and Sliver Bauhinia Star by the HKSAR Government in 2016 and 2008 respectively, and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2001.