李律仁

English

Laurence Li Lu Jen, born in 1971, is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel practising from Temple Chambers in Admiralty. He holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School, was admitted in New York in 1998 and called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2006, practising mainly in civil and financial law. On 16 April 2019 the Chief Justice, Geoffrey Ma, announced the appointment of four Senior Counsel, including Li, effective 22 June 2019. In public service, the Government announced on 6 July 2018 that the Chief Executive had appointed him Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council from 11 July 2018 to 16 January 2019, and as Chairman of its board once the Council was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, for two years, succeeding Marjorie Yang. The then Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, James Lau, said Li had extensive professional knowledge of the financial services sector and had contributed substantially to the Council since its establishment. On 13 January 2023 the Government announced his reappointment as Chairman of the FSDC board for two years from 17 January 2023, and the board list published on 14 March 2024 still recorded him as Chairman.