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The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan, GBM, GBS, JP 陳智思
Bachelor of Arts - Pomona College, California, USA

Occupation 商業職務
Asia Financial Holdings Ltd. 亞洲金融集團	President 總裁
Asia Insurance Co. Ltd. 亞洲保險有限公司	Chairman 主席
Bangkok Bank (China) Company Limited 盤谷銀行(中國)有限公司	Advisor 顧問
Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited, Thailand 泰國康民醫院大眾有限公司	Director 董事
Public Service 社會公職
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China 全國人民代表大會	Hong Kong Deputy 香港代表
Executive Council of Hong Kong SAR 香港特別行政區行政會議	Convenor 召集人
The Hong Kong Council of Social Service 香港社會服務聯會	Chairperson 主席
Hong Kong - Thailand Business Council 香港泰國商會	Chairman 主席
Tai Kwun Culture & Arts Co. Ltd 大館文化藝術有限公司	Chairman 主席
Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited 香港故宮文化博物館有限公司	Chairman 主席
Hong Kong Chronicles Institute 香港地方志中心	Chairman of the Executive Committee 執行委員會主席
Chief Executive's Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development 行政長官創新及策略發展顧問團	Non-official Member 非官方成員
Exchange Fund Advisory Committee 外匯基金諮詢委員會	Member 委員
Past Public Service 曾擔任公職
Legislative Council of the HKSAR 香港特別行政區立法會 (1998 - 2008)	Member 議員
Advisory Committee on Revitalisation of Historic Buildings 活化歷史建築諮詢委員會 (2008 - 2016)	Chairman 主席
Antiquities Advisory Board 古物諮詢委員會 (2009 - 2012)	Chairman 主席
Council for Sustainable Development 可持續發展委員會 (2009 - 2015)	Chairman 主席
Council of Lingnan University 香港嶺南大學校董會 (2008 - 2014)	Chairman 主席
Steering Committee on Restored Landfill Revitalization Funding Scheme 活化已修復堆填區資助計劃 (2014 - 2020)	Chairman 主席
Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food 降低食物中鹽和糖委員會 (2015 - 2021)	Chairman 主席
Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service 司法人員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會 (2010 - 2016)	Chairman 主席
Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service 紀律人員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會 (2001 - 2006)	Chairman 主席
Council of Oxfam Hong Kong 香港樂施會董事會 (2001 - 2014)	Vice Chairman 副主席

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Bernard Charnwut Chan was born into a Thai-Chinese family in Hong Kong in 1965. He was educated locally before finishing high school (The Hill School) in the United States. Unlike many Hong Kong students, who often favour business-related or technical subjects, Bernard then studied studio art at Pomona College, the noted liberal arts college in the US. His favoured style was pointillism, and his work has been published.

After graduating from college, Bernard worked in New York for an investment bank before returning to Hong Kong. After working for his family’s privately held investment company, he moved to the publicly listed Asia Financial Holdings, which owns Asia Insurance and invests in the insurance, health care and other sectors. Today, he is the President of Asia Financial Holdings and Chairman of Asia Insurance, which has gained a reputation as one of the financially strongest insurers in Hong Kong.

Among his business successes are the formation in 1999 of Bank Consortium Trust, a joint venture of nine Hong Kong institutions that provides Mandatory Provident Fund services and of which he was founding chairman. Bank Consortium Trust today has over US$16 billion of funds under its management. In 2006 he arranged the sale of Asia Financial Holdings’ subsidiary Asia Commercial Bank at a price-to-book value of 2.5 times in order to prepare for expansion of the company’s insurance and other interests. It was the highest ever multiple for a bank of that size in Hong Kong.

Bernard sits on the boards of several local and overseas companies in financial services and is a director of Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company in Thailand. Bernard is also a chairman of the Hong Kong-Thailand Business Council, which encourages the development of trade and investment between the two places and the growth of Hong Kong and Thailand as gateways to their respective hinterlands in the Pearl River Delta and Mekong Region. He is also an advisor to Bangkok Bank (China) Co. Ltd.

In July 2017, he became Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of Our Hong Kong Foundation. He is also a director of the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund in Hong Kong.

In January 2008, Bernard was elected to the National People's Congress, the highest organ of state power in China, in which he is one of 36 Hong Kong deputies. From October 2004 to January 2009 Bernard was a non-official member of the Executive Council, Hong Kong's highest policy making body. He was appointed as a non-official member of the Exco again in July 2012 and was appointed Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council in 2017. From 1998 to 2008, he was a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, where he represented the Insurance Industry.

His interests in three particular social policy areas – welfare, quality of life and education – are reflected in a number of his public service activities.

The plight of the disadvantaged and the lack of social cohesion in modern Hong Kong have led Bernard to think about the need to build meaningful bridges between the business world and the welfare sector and its clients. As the chairperson of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service – an umbrella group of welfare agencies – he is proud to have played a part in the creation of Caring Company, a framework that creates partnerships between the business and welfare sectors. He was also Vice Chairman of the council of Oxfam Hong Kong from 2001-14, and is chairman of its annual Trailwalker event – a fund-raising 100-kilometre race that attracts teams from around the world and which Bernard himself has completed several times.

Bernard is also concerned about the quality of life in Hong Kong, such as the physical environment, health, pollution, cultural life, quality of services and other issues that keep the city competitive and attractive not just as a business centre but as a home for its ambitious and international population. He was the Chairman of the Antiquities Advisory Board from 2009 to 2012, which advises the government on historic buildings and monuments. He was also the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Revitalisation of Historic Buildings from 2008-2016, which reviews and advises the government on proposals for innovative uses for heritage sites. In October 2016, he was appointed a Board Member of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, and in March 2018 he became Chairman of the Hong Kong Palace Museum Ltd. In November 2019, he became Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Chronicles Institute. In 2020, he was appointed Chairman to the Tai Kwun Culture & Arts Co. Ltd., which is responsible for the funding, planning, curation and execution of culture and arts programmes. Bernard is also a patron of the Photographic Heritage Foundation.

He was appointed Chairman of the Council for Sustainable Development (Mar 2009 – Feb 2015), which advises the government on urban environment issues, and has focused particularly on sustainable building design, proposals for municipal solid waste charging and new approaches to energy saving. In 2014 he was appointed Chairman of the Steering Committee on Restored Landfill Revitalisation Funding Scheme, which considers ways to reuse restored landfills for public leisure or conservation purposes. And in 2015 he was named Chairman of the new Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food , and became a member of the Aviation Development & Three-runway System Advisory Committee.

In the education area, Bernard was a trustee of Pomona College in California, USA from 1995-98 and 2008-2020 and is now a Trustee Emeritus. He was also the Council Chairman of Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2008-2014. Like Pomona, Lingnan is dedicated to the principles of liberal education. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong. He has also served since 2013 as Chairman of the Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme, which enables Hong Kong scholars to pursue top-class technology courses at international universities.

Among his previous public service activities, Bernard was from 2001-06 Chairman of the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service, an independent body that advises the Hong Kong government on pay and conditions for police, prison, immigration, emergency and similar services. He was appointed Chairman of the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service in 2011-2016.

He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2002, and a Commander (3rd Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand in 2004. In 2006, still barely in his 40s, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government. In 2020, he received the government’s highest honour, the Grand Bauhinia Medal. In 2015, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate of humanities by Lingnan University and an honorary doctorate of social science by City University of Hong Kong , and in 2017 he received an honorary doctorate of business administration from the Open University of Hong Kong (now called The Hong Kong Metropolitan University). In 2016, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Architectural Conservationists and Honorary Professor in the Division of Architectural Conservation Programmes under the Faculty of Architecture of The University of Hong Kong. In 2019 he was awarded an honorary degree of Humane Letters by Savannah College of Art and Design.

He is married and has two children.

Sept 2021

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陳智思1965年生於香港的一個泰國華僑家族。他在香港完成初中學習後，即赴美國留學(The Hill School)。當大部分香港學生都喜愛攻讀有關工商或科技的科目時，陳智思卻在美國加州一所出名注重博雅教育的大學Pomona College選修藝術。他專注點畫藝術，曾經將作品結集成書出版。

大學畢業後，陳智思在紐約一所投資銀行任職。後回港，先在家族旗下一間投資公司工作，之後轉往上市公司亞洲金融集團。集團擁有亞洲保險，亦有投資其他保險範疇、醫療服務以及其他業務。現為亞洲金融集團總裁及亞洲保險主席，而亞洲保險更是香港保險市場上其中一間最具規模及穩健的公司。

陳智思在商務上取得理想的成績，1999年聯合九間香港銀行組成「銀聯信託」，提供強制性公積金服務，並出任公司的首任董事長。今日，「銀聯信託」管理的資產已超越160億美元。2006年，陳智思成功以2.5倍的市價對帳面值比率，出售亞洲金融集團附屬機構亞洲商業銀行，為集團的保險及其他業務的擴張作好準備。這是歷來香港中小型銀行的最高售價。

陳智思為幾家本地及海外的金融服務公司及泰國康民醫院大眾有限公司擔任董事會成員。他亦是香港泰國商會主席，鼓勵香港及泰國兩地發展貿易及投資項目，促進兩地各自成為通往珠江三角洲及湄公河腹地的通道。陳更為盤谷銀行(中國)有限公司顧問。

2017年7月起出任團結香港基金理事會副主席，也是阿里巴巴成立的香港創業者基金董事。

自2008年1月，陳智思被選為全國人民代表大會代表，成為中國最高權力機構香港區36位成員之一。2004年10月至2009年1月，陳智思被委任為行政會議非官守成員，進入香港最高決策機構。2012年7月，陳再獲任為行政會議非官守成員；2017年7月更任為行政會議非官守成員召集人。1998至2008年間，他是代表保險界的立法會議員。

陳智思關注社會事務，特別專注於福利、改善生活質素及教育這三方面範疇，從他的公職及參與的活動中亦可見一斑。

弱勢社群的困境和社會欠缺凝聚力促使陳智思更積極為社福界及商界搭建橋樑，促進兩者之間的夥伴關係。身為香港社會服務聯會的主席，他竭力推廣融入這一意念的「商界展關懷」計劃，並為自己能出一分力感到驕傲。另外，他在2001至2014年擔任香港樂施會董事會副主席，現時為樂施會毅行者籌委會主席，毅行者是樂施會一年一度的盛事，吸引世界各地的人士參與，參加者要走100公里籌款。陳智思親力親為，數次與團隊完成毅行者艱難的旅程。

陳智思關心香港的生活質素，整體環境、健康、污染、文化生活、服務質素和其他，種種會令這個城巿更具競爭力，不單止只是一個金融中心，更是一個能吸引外地專才的家。陳智思在2009至2012年乃古物諮詢委員會主席，組織在保護歷史建築的範疇上向政府提供了重要的意見。2008-2016年，他獲任為活化歷史建築諮詢委員會主席，協助審核活化歷史建築的新用途並向政府提建議。2016年10月獲邀出任西九文化區管理局董事局成員。2018年3月獲委任為香港故宮文化博物館有限公司主席； 2019年11月為香港地方志中心執行委員會主席。2020年陳擔任大館文化藝術有限公司的主席，負責籌劃和策展於大館舉辦的文化和藝術節目，以及相關資金募集，他亦是歷史遺珍攝影基金會的贊助人。

他曾獲委任為可持續發展委員會主席(2009年3月至2015年2月)，就有關都市環境等範疇的政策，向政府作出建議；也關注可持續建築設計、對都市固體廢物徵費和節省能源等作建議。2014年，獲任為活化已修復堆填區資助計劃督導委員會主席，就計劃的運作安排、審核申請、如何使用已修復堆填區作公眾休憩或保育用途等提供意見。並在2015年擔任新設的降低食物中鹽和糖委員會主席及航空發展與機場三跑道系統諮詢委員會成員。

教育方面，陳智思在1995-1998及2008-2020年出任美國加州Pomona College校董，現出任榮譽校董；亦曾於2008-2014年擔任香港嶺南大學校董會主席。該校與Pomona College一樣，同是注重博雅教育理念的學府。他是香港思貝禮國際學校理事會成員。他在2013年起為創新科技獎學金計劃甄選委員會主席，獎學金計劃讓本地傑出理科本科生有擴濶國際視野的機會。

另外，於2001-06年間，他是紀律人員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會的主席，此委員會是一個獨立機構，負責建議政府有關紀律部隊的公務員的薪酬及任職條件。2011-16年，他被委任為司法人員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會主席。

陳智思於 2002年榮膺太平紳士銜；2004年獲泰國政府頒發Commander (3rd Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand。2006年，只有四十一歲的陳智思，已獲得香港特區政府頒授金紫荊星章；更於2020年獲授最高榮譽的大紫荊勳章。2015年獲嶺南大學頒授榮譽人文學博士學位，亦獲香港城市大學頒榮譽社會科學博士學位，並於2017年獲香港公開大學 (現稱香港都會大學) 頒授榮譽工商管理博士學位。2016年陳獲授香港建築文物保護師學會榮譽院士，及香港大學建築學院建築文物保護課程學部榮譽教授。2019年獲薩凡納藝術設計大學頒授榮譽人文學博士。

他已婚，育有兩子。

2021年9月

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