Laura Cha

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The Honourable Laura Cha Shih May-lung 查史美倫

Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2004
Chief Executive	Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang Leung Chun-ying
HK Deputy to the NPC
In office 11th NPC
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Chairman	Wu Bangguo
Personal details
Born	1949 (age 64–65)
Alma mater	BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison JD, Santa Clara University

Laura Cha Shih May-lung

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Laura Cha Shih May-lung^[1](5 December 1949^[2]), GBS, JP, is a Hong Kong businesswoman and politician. She is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Chairperson of Preparatory Task Force on the Financial Services Development Council, and Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Life in the United States

Cha earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a juris doctor degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law.^[3] She was a member of the Committee of 100, a Chinese American political and cultural organization.^[2] She practiced law in the 1980s in San Francisco with Pillsbury Madison and Sutro.

After her return to Hong Kong, Cha continued practicing law with Coudert Brothers. She worked at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission from 1991 to early 2001, becoming its Deputy Chairman in 1998. She served as Hong Kong's delegate to the 11th National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the CSRC, Chairman of the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Millstein Center of Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale University.

Cha was Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 2001 to 2004. She was appointed to the post by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and became the first person outside mainland China to join the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China at the vice-ministerial rank. She renounced U.S. citizenship to take up the position.^[4]

She was appointed Director of HSBC Holdings plc effective 1 March 2011.^[2]

in 2012, Cha was awarded by the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute as Honorary Fellow.

Order of precedence
Previous: York Chow Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food	Hong Kong order of precedence Non-official member of the Executive Council	Succeeded by Charles Lee Non-official member of the Executive Council

President: Leung Chun-Ying (Chief Executive)¹

Official members

Senior secretaries	Carrie Lam John Tsang Rimsky Yuen

Secretaries	Anthony Cheung Tsang Tak-sing Matthew Cheung Ceajer Chan Gregory So Raymond Tam Paul Tang Lai Tung-kwok Eddie Ng Ko Wing-man Wong Kam-sing Paul Chan

Non-official members

Convenor	Lam Woon-kwong

Members	Cheng Yiu-tong Laura Cha Anna Wu Arthur Li Andrew Liao Sir Chung-Kong Chow Cheung Hok-ming Fanny Law Cheung Chi-kong Bernard Chan Starry Lee Regina Ip Jeffrey Lam

¹ The Chief Executive serves as the President of the ExCo, but is not a member of the ExCo.

v t e HSBC Holdings

Corporate directors:	Douglas Flint (Group Chairman) Stuart Gulliver (Group CEO) Safra A. Catz Laura Cha Vincent Cheng Marvin Cheung John Coombe Rona Fairhead Sandy Flockhart James Hughes-Hallett Sam Laidlaw Rachel Lomax Iain Mackay Gwyn Morgan Simon Robertson John L. Thornton Brian Williamson

Brands:	First Direct Hang Seng Bank HSBC HSBC Bank International HSBC Premier HSBC Private Bank HSBC Trinkaus M&S Money Proa SABB

Principal local banks:	Argentina Brazil Canada People's Republic of China Egypt France Germany Hong Kong Malaysia Middle East Mexico Panama Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka Republic of China (Taiwan) Turkey United Kingdom United States

Minority stakes and joint ventures:	Bank of Communications (19%) HSBC Saudi Arabia (60%) SABB (40%) Ping An Insurance (19.9%) Techcombank (15%) Bank of Shanghai (8%)

Predecessor companies	Grupo Banistmo Bank of British Columbia Beneficial Crédit Commercial de France Guyerzeller Household Imperial Bank of Persia Marine Midland Bank Midland Bank Republic New York Samuel Montagu & Co.

Annual group revenue: US$75.60 billion (2012) Employees: 260,591 (2012) nGroup Headquarters: 8 Canada Square, London, E14 5HQ, United Kingdom

Persondata
Name	Cha, Laura
Alternative names	Cha Shih May-lung, Laura
Short description	Chinese businesswoman and politician
Date of birth	5 December 1949
Place of birth
Date of death
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