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| Ronald ARCULLI, CVO,
GBS, OBE, JP |
Mr Ronald Arculli is currently a Non-Official Member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. He is the senior partner of Arculli Fong & Ng, which has a strategic alliance with King & Wood, the largest law firm in Mainland China.
He became an international trustee of The International Foundation (The Duke of Edinburgh's Award) in 1991 and in 2000 he succeeded HRH the Duke of Edinburgh as Chairman of The International Award Association, a youth development program active in some 100 countries. He serves on the global advisory boards of the University of Colorado Denver's Institute of International Business and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also serves on the boards of several major listed companies in Hong Kong. In November 2005, the City University of Hong Kong conferred on Mr Arculli an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Social Sciences.
Mr Arculli has a long and distinguished record of public service as a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1988 to 2000 and has served on many commissions and boards, including the board of the Hong Kong Jockey Club from 1992 and as its Chairman between 2002 and August 2006, and the Board of Governors of the London Business School. |
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| Benjamin CHA, B.A., M.B.A. |
| Mr Benjamin Cha is one of the principals of the Cha Group, a diversified conglomerate based in Hong Kong with interests in property development, direct investment, media, and manufacturing. Mr Cha is Director of various Cha Group subsidiaries, including Hanison Construction Holdings and HKR Asia Pacific, both members of the group's publicly listed property development company HKR International Ltd. Mr Cha has a long-standing interest in contemporary art. Mr Cha earned his B.A. in International Politics & Economics from Middlebury College and M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Mr Cha is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Shanghai Youth Federation. |
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| CHANG Tsong-zung, B.A.
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| Since the late 1980s, curator and art critic Chang Tsong-zung has played an important role in promoting contemporary Chinese art. Co-curator of the seminal exhibition 'China New Art, Post-89' in 1993, Mr Chang has curated numerous shows, including 'Reckoning with the Past', at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (1996), 'Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom' at the Rudolfinum, Prague (1997), 'Owner of the Word' at the Taiwan Art Museum and various venues in the U.S (1999), and 'Magic at Street Level', the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2001). He has written numerous essays for exhibition catalogues.
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| Jane DEBEVOISE, B.A, M.A (Current Chair)
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Jane DeBevoise is an independent advisor and PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2002, Ms DeBevoise was deputy director of the Guggenheim Museum, responsible for museum operations and exhibitions globally. She joined the Museum in 1996 as project director of 'China: 5000 Years', a blockbuster exhibition of traditional and modern Chinese art that was presented in 1998 at both the Guggenheim Museum New York and Bilbao. Prior to 1996, Ms DeBevoise was managing director at Bankers Trust Company where she worked for 14 years in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Ms DeBevoise has a BA degree in History and Fine Arts from Tufts University, and an MA degree in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms DeBevoise is a Trustee of China Institute in New York.
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| HO Hing-kay Oscar, B.A, M.F.A
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| An Artist and curator, Oscar Ho Hing-kay
was the exhibition director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre from
1988 to 2001. In addition to his curatorial work in Hong Kong,
he has also been engaged with international curatorial programs
to include the 2nd and 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art in Brisbane, the '96 Containers' exhibition in Copenhagen,
and was guest curator for the first HX Art Festival in Halifax.
In 1996, he founded the Hong Kong chapter of the International
Art Critics Association and is a member of the Founding Editorial
Board of British art journal AFTERALL. He writes regularly
for local and international newspaper, art journals and exhibition
catalogues. He was an advisor for documenta 12, and a member
of the Museum Advisory Group for the Hong Kong Government in
planning a new museum at the West Kowloon Cultural District.
He is currently the Director of the MA Program in Cultural Management
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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Pamela KEMBER, B.A, B.Lib
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Pamela Kember is an independent art historian and lecturer in contemporary art, theory and criticism. She has a background in Art Librarianship and Information Studies. During the early 1990s she worked at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the History of Art Department, Oxford University, before joining the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, from 1989-1997. Ms Kember moved to Hong Kong in 1997. She has worked at the Hong Kong Art School as a lecturer in Art History &Theory, and Curatorial Studies, until 2008. From 2001 to 2002 she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Chinese University, and their guest curator from 2003 to 2005. She was a contributing editor for a number of art journals, as well as editing and writing books and catalogue essays, including Chinese Art at The End of The Millennium (2000). Ms Kember, is currently a PhD Candidate at Chelsea College, London on the topic of Hong Kong Artists of the Diaspora.
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| Anupam PODDAR |
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Anupam Poddar took over the reigns of his mother's collection of modern art in 2000 when he began adding to the collection works by India's younger generation of artist. In 2008, he set up the not-for-profit Devi Art Foundation, committed to providing a space for young artists experimenting with new ideas, without the imposition of commercial limitations.
Poddar also heads the Business Development unit for Devi Garh in New Delhi. He established The Devi Design Studio which specialises in designing metal tableware that reflects the craft traditions of India and their application in our modern day lifestyles. After obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from the European Business School in London, Poddar completed a Professional Development Programme for hotel management at Cornell University. |
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David PONG Chun-Yee, B.Sc
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Mr David Pong Chun-Yee is a Director of his family business, Shiu Wing Steel Ltd. Mr Pong collects contemporary Chinese ink paintings. He actively participates in a number of community activities. He is a trustee of the Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art Endowment Trust, council member of the Academy for Performing Arts, board member of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, and executive committee member the Asian Cultural Council's Hong Kong chapter. In 2003 he joined the Board of Trustees of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Ink Society in Hong Kong. He earned a BSc degree in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. |
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| Sir David TANG, K.B.E
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| Founder and Chairman of The China Club in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing, and founder of the Shanghai Tang Stores in Hong Kong, New York and London, David Tang is a leading figure in the business community. Mr Tang has a long history of community service and serves on the board of a number of charities worldwide. Entrepreneur, designer and philosopher, David Tang is a passionate collector of contemporary Chinese art. He has been a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts for over 10 years and recently became Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Acquisition Committee of the Tate Modern. |
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Baron Guy F. ULLENS
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Baron Ullens has been running the family business, which includes Weight Watchers, for over 40 years. Son of a diplomat stationed in Beijing for many years, Baron Guy Ullens comes from a long line of art collectors, archeologists and ethnologists. He has an avid interest in and an impressive collection of contemporary and traditional Chinese art. In November 2007 Baron Ullens opened the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, the first not-for-profit, independent organization of its kind in China. |
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| John (Jack) S. WADSWORTH, Jr
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Mr Wadsworth is the Honorary Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and an Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley globally, and is based in San Francisco. Mr Wadsworth joined Morgan Stanley as a managing director in 1978 before moving to Japan in 1987 as president of Morgan Stanley Japan. In 1992, Mr Wadsworth moved to Hong Kong as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. In 2001 he moved from Hong Kong to San Francisco. He is a General Partner of Manitou Ventures. Mr Wadsworth sits on numerous boards, including Pixar Animation Studios; The Asia Society's Board of Trustees (Vice Chairman); the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) United States Member Committee (Vice Chairman), Williams College Trustees, and the Guggenheim Museum of New York. Mr Wadsworth earned a B.A. From Williams College in 1961 and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1963. |
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| Dr Eric Otto WEAR, B.F.A,
M.A, Ph.D. |
| Eric Otto Wear has researched comparative
issues in Asian and European art history for over twenty years,
focusing on the creation of value and meaning in markets and
social contexts. An active critic and curator, he has collaborated
with a range of museums and galleries on projects related to
contemporary and historical Chinese art and design. He has
also advised local authorities and developers in China and
Taiwan on sustainable cultural preservation. Wear was Associate
Professor at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and Goldsmiths College,
London. |
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