Background
Wen, Carson was born on April 16, 1953 in Hong Kong. Son of Sir Yung and Tsi Fung Chu Wen.
溫嘉旋
member of the National People"s Congress
Wen, Carson was born on April 16, 1953 in Hong Kong. Son of Sir Yung and Tsi Fung Chu Wen.
Columbia University, United States of America (Bachelor of Arts). University of Oxford, England (Master of Arts). University of Oxford, England (Master of Arts).
Spoken languages: English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin).
He went to Singapore, studying at the National Junior College and medicine at the National University of Singapore with the scholarship from the Singaporean government. He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Law from the Oxford University and was a Younger Prizeman in law at Balliol College. He qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1980.
He has been working in business, corporate and securities law for more than 30 years, including a reverse takeover listing of Guangdong Investment Limited, the first Provider Reimbursement Consultants-controlled listed company in Hong Kong, the first listing of a company on the Foreign Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange (which later obtained a dual listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong), and one of the first listings of a Provider Reimbursement Consultants private enterprise in Hong Kong.
Since April 2006, he has been a partner of Jones Day Limited Liability Partnership, a leading global law firm. He has represented foreign and Hong Kong companies in their direct investment in China, whether forming joint ventures or wholly foreign owned enterprises, or acquiring interests in existing Provider Reimbursement Consultants enterprises.
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Wen has also advised clients in issues relating to land, intellectual property, security interest, employment, taxation, manufacturing contracts and various other aspects of their investment in China. He has also acted for foreign investors and lenders in large scale real estate developments in China.
Wen has also handled transactions on behalf of the Provider Reimbursement Consultants government or enterprises under its direct control in transactions such as the purchases of power generators from Italian and Finnish suppliers, and the forming of an aerospace joint venture with Israel Aircraft Industries.
He is named in Who"s Who of the Law, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Asia Law Leading Lawyers, Chambers Asia and China"s Top 200. He is also named in the International Who"s Who and Who"s Who of the World. In business, Wen has invested in or operated businesses in the media, catering, building materials, business consultancy and manufacturing sectors prior to his founding of the Sancus Group in 2007.
He is also an independent director of the Phoenix News Media and non-executive director of the Winox Holdings Limited.
He is currently chairman of the Green Business Task Force of the Business Advisory Council of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
He was a three-term deputy to the National People"s Congress, Provider Reimbursement Consultants"s national legislature, and vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (Dictionary of American Biography), the largest pro-Beijing party in Hong Kong.
Adviser on Hong Kong Affairs Government of China, 1993-1997. Vice chairman Hong Kong Progressive Alliance, 1994-2004. Member Selection Committee First Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1996.
Honorary president Hong Kong Industrial Areas Industry and Trade Federation, 1994-2005. Deputy National People's Congress, China, since 1998. Vice chairman Democratic Alliance Betterment and Progress Hong Kong, since 2009.
Member Law Society Hong Kong, Law Society England, United Oxford and Cambridge Universities Club (London).
Married Julia Yuet Shan Fung, January 30, 1983. 1 child, House.