Carson Wen | |
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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 | |
Chairman | Tam Yiu-chung |
Preceded by | Ip Kwok-him |
Succeeded by | Starry Lee Horace Cheung |
Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress | |
In office 8 December 1997 – 19 December 2012 | |
Chairman | Qiao Shi Li Peng Wu Bangguo |
Personal details | |
Political party | Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (1994–2005) Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (2005–present) |
Spouse | Fung Yuet-shan |
Alma mater | Columbia University Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Solicitor businessman Politician |
Carson Wen | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 溫嘉旋 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 温嘉旋 | ||||||||||
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Carson Wen Ka-shuen, BBS, JP (Chinese: 溫嘉旋) is a Hong Kong businessman, lawyer and politician.
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]
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]
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]