Lincoln Leong

Appointed

Lincoln Leong was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered PLC and to the Court of Standard Chartered Bank in November 2024.

Board committee membership

• Audit Committee member

Experience

Lincoln is a chartered accountant with experience in general management, investment management and investment banking. He has a wealth of executive and non-executive board experience across a range of industries and markets, a deep commercial network and understanding of, and connection with, the Hong Kong market.

Career

Lincoln spent more than 15 years at MTR Corporation Limited in a range of executive roles, becoming its Chief Executive Officer from 2015 to 2019.

Prior to this he held a number of senior roles within private equity and investment banking including as a partner at Capital Z Asia Limited, Senior Vice President of Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers Asia Ltd and Director of, followed by Head of Corporate Finance at Schroders Asia Ltd.

Lincoln started his career as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1982 in London and subsequently Vancouver.

He was previously a non-executive director of Jardine Strategic Holdings Limited and Mandarin Oriental International Limited, and an independent non-executive director of Link Asset Management Limited (manager of the listed Link Real Estate Investment Trust) and SUNeVision Holdings Ltd.

External appointments

• Independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
• Independent non-executive director and Chair of the audit committee of China Resources Land Limited
• Non-executive director of Hongkong Land Holdings Limited
• Board member and executive committee member of The Community Chest of Hong Kong
• Vice Chair supervisory board member and executive committee member of the Hong Kong Housing Society