Advisory Council

Dr. Roger King

Advisory Council Member


Dr. Roger King is an Adjunct Professor of Finance, Founding Directors of the Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies, and the Thompson Center for Business Case Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His teaching and research interests are entrepreneurship, family business and corporate and family governance.

Dr. King was a former US Naval Officer; Member of Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories (USA); the Chief Operating Officer of Orient Overseas (Holdings) Limited, listed on the SEHK; Chairman and founder of ODS System-Pro Computers Limited; Chairman of Euro-Asia Shipyard Limited; Chairman of Pacific Coffee Limited; President and Chief Executive Officer of Sa Sa International Holdings Limited, listed on the SEHK; Board Director of Arrow Electronics Corporation, listed on the NYSE, and Sincere Watch (Hong Kong) Limited, listed on the SEHK; Supervisory Board member of TNT Express, listed on Amsterdam Exchange; President of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong; Chairman of the Association of Honorary Consuls in Hong Kong and Macau; Honorary Consul for the Republic of Latvia in HKSAR; Standing Committee Member of the Zhejiang Province Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; and Council Members of the Baptist University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Dr. King currently is a Non-Executive Director of Overseas Orient International, listed on the SEHK; Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Family Business Strategy; Honorary Court Member of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University; Chairman of the Case Committee, Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools; Member of SKOLKOVO (Moscow School of Management) Academic Council.

Dr. King is a graduate of the University of Michigan, BSEE; New York University, MSEE; Harvard Business School, AMP; and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PhD (Finance); 2011 recipient of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Honorary Fellowship; Member of Eta Kappa Nu and Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary society for electrical engineers and business scholars, respectively.