Pansy Catalina Ho Chiu-king ONM is a businesswoman and female billionaire from Macau.
Background
She is the daughter of Hong Kong-and Macau-based businessman Stanley Ho, and the managing director of various companies he founded, including Shun Tak Holdings and the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau. Pansy Ho was born on 26 August 1962, the eldest of five children of Stanley Ho and Lam King Yin.
Education
She attended an all-girls high school Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California and went on to attend Santa Clara University, graduating with a bachelor"s degree in marketing and business. Pansy Ho, also, attended Saint Paul"s Convent School in Causeway Bay (Hong Kong) as part of her Junior and Senior High School.
Career
In 1981, Ho began a brief career in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, appearing with actor Danny Chan, who himself had then just been in the industry for two years, in the TVB series Breakthrough (突破). Later, at age 26, she would launch her own public relations firm. However, in March 2010, she was barred from running a gaming business in New Jersey due to state gaming regulators" conclusion, based on Cap 148 Gambling Ordinance (kui yau yat tiu gui lun), that her father has "extensive ties" to organised crime, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mirage was ordered to "disengage itself from any business association" with her.
Ho serves as chairwoman of the French Macao Business Association.
Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island awarded her an honorary doctorate of business administration in May 2007. In April 2009, she was named Chevalier de l"Ordre national du Mérite in a ceremony at the French consulate-general of Hong Kong.