Carson Wen

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Carson Wen
溫嘉旋
Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
In office
15 April 2009 – 19 April 2011
ChairmanTam Yiu-chung
Preceded byIp Kwok-him
Succeeded byStarry Lee
Horace Cheung
Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress
In office
8 December 1997 – 19 December 2012
ChairmanQiao Shi
Li Peng
Wu Bangguo
Personal details
PartyHong Kong Progressive Alliance (1994–2005)
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (2005–present)
SpouseFung Yuet-shan
Alma materColumbia University
Balliol College, Oxford
OccupationSolicitor
businessman
Politician
Carson Wen
Traditional Chinese溫嘉旋
Simplified Chinese温嘉旋
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWēn Jiāxuán
Yue: Cantonese
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Carson Wen Ka-shuen, BBS, JP (Chinese: 溫嘉旋) is a Hong Kong businessman, lawyer and politician.

Education

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Wen received his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1975,[1] and received his B.A. and M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied law and was Younger Prizeman in Law for 1976.[2]

Career

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He was a three-term deputy to the National People's Congress elected in 1997.[3][4] He was also a former chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance and vice chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, elected in 2009.[5][6][7][8] After he left in 2011, he remained an advisor to the party.[9]

He is an independent director of Phoenix New Media Ltd.[10] He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Government of Hong Kong in 2002.[11] He is the Executive Council member of the Sustainable Business Network of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).[12]

In 2016, Wen retired from the law firm Jones Day. Wen is currently Chairman of Bank of Asia (BVI), a digital, cross-border bank based in the British Virgin Islands, and the first bank to be authorized in the BVI in two decades.[2][13] In 2018, he launched Eurasia Continental Fintech in Astana International Financial Centre.[14]

Awards

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In 2007, he was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for his contribution to economic ties between Hong Kong, Mainland China and the rest of the world.[15]

References

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