李家祥

English

Eric Li Ka-cheung is a Hong Kong accountant and former legislator, born on 23 May 1953. Educated at St Paul's Co-educational College and at Warwick School in England, he graduated in economics from the University of Manchester and later received an honorary doctorate in social sciences from Hong Kong Baptist University. A practising accountant and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, he has been president of the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs and a council member of the International Federation of Accountants. He was for many years chief partner of Li, Tang, Chen & Co., and has served as a director of major listed banks and companies. In 1995 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the Accountancy functional constituency, and he was returned again in 1998 and 2000, serving until 2004. In the council he chaired the Public Accounts Committee for many years, and also chaired the Commission on Youth, was vice-chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Council and sat on the council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has long taken part in charitable and professional bodies, serving as a senior adviser to the Community Chest and as an honorary member of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants' practitioners' association and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is now an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit and risk management committee of Sun Hung Kai Properties, honorary chairman of ShineWing (Hong Kong) CPA, and an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's school of accountancy and Hong Kong Baptist University's school of business.