Mr Barry Cheung Chun-yuen 張震遠, GBS, JP
Chairman, Urban Renewal Authority
8:00 pm, June 20, 2011
Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall
Urban decay is among the most urgent problems in Hong Kong today. More than 3,000 blocks of building are considered sub-standard and 110,000 families are living in these homes. The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) was tasked by the Government to tackle this problem through redevelopment and rehabilitation a decade ago. Although tens of thousands of families have been benefited, urban renewal remains a controversial process. The balance between redevelopment and preservation, compensation, and the role of the Authority have been subjected to heated debate. URA Chairman Barry Cheung will share with the audience the true stories behind the Authority’s work, and its planned way forward to contain the urban decay problem as guided by the new Urban Renewal Strategy promulgated in February, 2011.
Mr Cheung, Chairman of Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, has been Chairman of the URA since 2007 and a board member since 2001. He is currently Chairman of the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service, an Alternate Chairman of the Pay Trend Survey Committee, a member of the Commission on Strategic Development and a member of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service. He is also an independent non-executive director of United Company RUSAL. Mr Cheung was a former Chairman of the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of the ICAC. He was a full-time member of the Central Policy Unit on secondment from McKinsey & Company. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in the United States and Asia. Mr Cheung received a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Sussex and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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