Professor Chun Kwong CHAN is the Professor of Practice in Financial Technology at CUHK Faculty of Engineering. He currently serves as the Programme Director of the MSc/PgD Programme in Financial Technology since September 2019.
Prior to joining CUHK, Prof. Chan has been the Chief Information Officer, Retail Banking & Wealth Management, Asia Pacific at HSBC since 2015. From 2012-2015, Prof. Chan was the Global Head of Digital Mobile & Channels Engineering at HSBC, having led the direction and engineering of banking applications in implementing the Digital Strategy for HSBC globally. He joined HSBC in Vancouver, Canada in 1990 to help start up the Group Development Centre for HSBC, and moved back to Hong Kong in 2007 to take up key IT management positions at HSBC Asia Pacific.
Besides working in financial technology in the last 28 years, Prof. Chan started his career in Hong Kong as an engineer with Fairchild Semiconductor Ltd in 1975, and as an IT professional with Hong Kong Telephone, Hong Kong Telecom, and Computasia. During 1988-1990, Prof. Chan took up a sabbatical to lecture on Management Information System at the then City Polytechnics of Hong Kong (now City University of Hong Kong).
Prof. Chan has won numerous innovation awards by IDC, Asian Bankers, etc. and currently serves on the Innovation and Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel, Hong Kong SAR Government and the Board of Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI).
Prof. Chan obtained his Bachelor of Science Engineering degree from The University of Hong Kong, Master of Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Doctor of Business Administration from City University of Hong Kong.
