About CSI

Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham, GBS, JP, joined the Group in 2018. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Shek obtained a bachelor degree of arts and a diploma in education in the University of Sydney in May 1969 and March 1970 respectively. Mr. Shek also obtained a Juris Doctor Degree in The City University of Hong Kong in June 2022. He became the honorary fellow of Lingnan University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong and The Education University of Hong Kong in November 2008, June 2014, September 2016 and March 2018 respectively. In addition to his achievements in the academic field, Mr. Shek has also earned certain honorary titles in various ambits. He was appointed as Justice of the Peace in July 1995 and awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star and Gold Bauhinia Star in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 2007 and 2013 Honors Lists respectively. He has also been a member of the advisory committee board of the Independent Commission Against Corruption from 2017 to 2022. Mr. Shek is currently a member of the Honorary Court Member of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Court and the Council Member of The University of Hong Kong and the Court Member of The City University of Hong Kong.

In addition, Mr. Shek is an independent non-executive director of the following listed companies, the shares of all of which are listed on the Stock Exchange: Paliburg Holdings Limited; Chuang’s Consortium International Limited; NWS Holdings Limited; Country Garden Holdings Company Limited; Chuang’s China Investments Limited; ITC Properties Group Limited; China Resources Cement Holdings Limited; Lai Fung Holdings Limited; Cosmopolitan International Holdings Limited; Everbright Grand China Assets Limited; Regal Portfolio Management Limited, the manager of Regal Real Estate Investment Trust; Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited, the manager of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust; Far East Consortium International Limited; Shin Hwa World Limited (formerly known as Landing International Development Limited); Hao Tian International Construction Investment Group Limited and Alliance International Education Leasing Holdings Limited (formerly known as International Alliance Financial Leasing Co., Ltd).

Mr. Shek was the chairman and an executive director of Goldin Financial Holdings Limited, the shares of which were delisted from the Stock Exchange. He was also an independent non-executive director of the following companies: SJM Holdings Limited up to May 2021, the shares of which are listed on the Stock Exchange; Lifestyle International Holdings Limited up to December 2022 and Hop Hing Group Holdings Limited up to June 2020, the shares of all of which were delisted from the Stock Exchange in December 2022 and January 2022 respectively.