| Daniel R.
Fung, the first person of Chinese extraction to serve as
Solicitor-General of Hong Kong, doing so in the years 1994 – 8
straddling its reversion to Chinese sovereignty, is Senior Counsel of
the Hong Kong Bar specializing in constitutional and commercial law and
the Chairman of Des Voeux Chambers, voted by Asia Law & Practice as
Chambers of the Year for 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005, and
an accredited China International Economic and Trade Arbitration
Commission arbitrator. Mr. Fung serves concurrently as Chairman of the
Broadcasting Authority, the government regulator of television and
radio broadcasting in and out of Hong Kong being Asia’s media and
communications hub. Mr. Fung is also the founding Chairman of the
East-West Strategic Development Commission (Estradev), a non-profit,
apolitical platform for conducting business-to-government dialogue to
stimulate economic growth in emerging markets. Since 1999, Estradev has
been active in India, Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, Tonga, Inner
Mongolia and currently focuses on the Pearl River Delta of the People’s
Republic of China. Mr. Fung is a national delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, serves on the World Bank International Advisory Council on Law & Justice, is special advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on corporate governance in China and on rule of law capacity building in Cambodia and Laos. In addition, Mr. Fung is Chairman of the China Law Council, President of the International Law Association Hong Kong Chapter, Honorary President of the International Association of Industry & Commerce, Vice Chairman of the UNDP-sponsored Peace & Development Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Salzburg Seminar, Vice-President of the Academy of Experts, a member the Board of Governors of the East West Center and a member of the International Advisory Board to the Xuhui District of Shanghai as well as the Strategic Development Commission of the Hong Kong Government. A Fellow of University College London where he graduated LL.B. in 1974 and LL.M. in 1978 and a member of Middle Temple since 1974, the English Bar since 1975 and the Hong Kong Bar since 1977, Mr. Fung was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Mr. Fung served from 1985-90 on the Basic Law Consultative Committee leading to the promulgation of Hong Kong’s constitution, from 1992–4 as Deputy Judge of the High Court and from 1993-4 on the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government. Made the last British-appointed Solicitor-General of Hong Kong by Governor Chris Patten in 1994, Mr. Fung went on to serve Chief Executive C H Tung in 1997 as the first Solicitor-General of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China. His portfolio covered Hong Kong’s legal, constitutional and human rights policy straddling its reversion to Chinese sovereignty, representing Hong Kong before the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, representing Hong Kong on constitutional appeals to the Privy Council in London, overseeing law reform in Hong Kong as well as monitoring legal development in China. On leaving public office, Mr. Fung took up successive appointments as Visiting Scholar to Harvard Law School (1998-9), Senior Visiting Fellow to Yale Law School (1999), Distinguished Fulbright Scholar for Hong Kong to the United States for the Year 2000, Visiting Professor to Sun Yat Sen University in China, non-executive director of the Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission (1999 – 2004) and the Hong Kong Airport Authority (1999-2005). Among various publications, Mr. Fung is the Joint General Editor of Arbitration in China (2004) and a contributing author to Democracy & the Rule of Law (2001) and The Confluence of Affluence: The Pearl River Delta Story (2005). Mr. Fung was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 2003 for services to legal and constitutional development in Hong Kong and made a Justice of the Peace in 2004. |