Mr Best was a partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and is a former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has chaired the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants Financial Reporting Standards Committee and has also been a member of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, the Stock Exchange Listing Committee, the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal, the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee, the Hong Kong Council for the Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications and the IFRS Advisory Council.

Ms Cheung is the Senior Partner of KPMG Hong Kong. She is the Past President  of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She currently serves as member of various public service committees, including the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service, the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, the Consumer Council Audit Committee and the Transport Advisory Committee. She is also the Non-Executive Director of Insurance Authority, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and the Hong Kong Genome Institute.

Ms Hui has over 20 years of banking and finance experience. She is currently the founder and CEO of Net Zero Asia Limited, a company that focuses on carbon asset development and carbon finance innovation. Before then, from 2013 to early 2022, Ms Hui was with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) where she served as Chief Operating Officer of its Listing Division until early 2020.  She then initiated and established HKEX’s green and sustainable finance department and HKEX’s STAGE. Prior to HKEX, Ms Hui was with UBS in various roles including Global Chief Operating Officer of its Legal & Compliance Department.

Ms Hui is currently an adjunct professor in the Division of Environment and Sustainability at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Deputy Chairman of the Sustainability Committee of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the UK Directors’ Climate Forum (Chapter Zero). She is also a qualified lawyer in Hong Kong and in England and Wales.

Ms Lai is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director of the AFRC since April 2024.  Ms Lai joined the AFRC in August 2022 as the Head of Inspection and took on the additional role of Acting CEO in October 2023. With decades of experience in Mainland China and Hong Kong, her background includes auditing, talent development and business transformation. Ms Lai has extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks and cross-border compliance. Before joining the AFRC, Ms Lai was a Partner of two leading international accounting firms for over 17 years.  She has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Australia.

Dr Lin is a Senior Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell. His practice focuses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

He serves as Director of the Hong Kong Investment Corporation and is a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

Dr Lin holds an A.B. degree from Harvard University, J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and D.Phil. degree from Oxford University.

Mr Lui was the Executive Director (August 2006 – August 2019) of the Supervision of Markets Division of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). During his service at the SFC, he was the Chairman of the Investor Compensation Fund Committee and the Securities Compensation Fund Committee, and a member of the Advisory Committee, Investment Committee, and SFC (HKEC Listing) Committee. He was also a member of the Statutory Risk Management Committee of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. He had worked for various financial institutions in the US and Hong Kong in the areas of deposit taking and lending, asset management and investment banking.

Mr Mak was a partner of PwC Hong Kong. He is also a past Chairman of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Hong Kong. He has over 30 years of experience in providing assurance and advisory services in Hong Kong and Mainland China with capital market related activities.

Mr Yuen has over 30 years of experience in finance and accounting for various companies, including multinationals, with the last position as the Area Finance Director of Pepsi-cola International, and Hong Kong listed companies, with the last position as the CFO of Hsin Chong Construction Company Ltd.  

Mr Yuen is a Certified Public Accountant.  He has served on various committees of professional accountancy associations, charity organizations and statutory bodies.  He obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.