Cecilia HO

Cecilia Ho joined Lee Hysan Foundation as President in 2012. She is also a member of the Commission on Poverty of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Fight Crime Committee under the Security Bureau, the Strategy Committee on Co-Creation under The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, the Advisory Committee of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong, the Advisory Committee of the School of Drama of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Steering Committee of the Knowledge Transfer Venture Impact Fund at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, she is an advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation.

She is the former Executive Director of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. and former Managing Director and Team Head of Citi Private Bank prior to joining Lee Hysan Foundation.

She has over 30 years of banking experience in various senior management positions including: Asian Business Development Head at Citi Canada; Business Manager for International Personal Banking Business at Citigroup, managing Asia, North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa region; Head of Sales and Services at Standard Chartered Bank covering eight countries.

She earned her BBA with honors from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and was presented the Hall of Honor in 2010 by the University of Hawaiʻi College of Business. She attended the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2019, The University of Hong Kong conferred the Honorary University Fellowship upon her. In 2024, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University also conferred the University Fellowship to her.