Janie Fong is Senior Managing Director of East West Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of East West Bancorp, Inc., a publicly owned company in the United States with operations in Asia. She also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of a Hong Kong publicly listed company.
As the region’s former Chief Representative of the 5th largest economy in the world, Ms. Fong was appointed by the California Governor to represent the State of California in Asia from 2000-2004. Through her former post as California’s Chief Representative, Ms. Fong successfully established new diplomatic, economic, trade, and investment ties between California U.S. and Asia Pacific firms with benefits flowing both ways across the Pacific.
Ms. Fong has experience in managing international business transactions along with corporate mergers and acquisitions activities and strategic advisory work as an international business attorney with a specialty in U.S.-Asia cross-border transactions. Ms. Fong served on the Hong Kong Commission on Strategic Development Advisory Body, is a Board Member of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Women’s Leadership Board, and has Chaired and served on various Not for Profit Boards including the Hong Kong America Fulbright Center.
Ms. Fong has previously worked as an executive with Silicon Valley startup companies and served as a Visiting Lecture and Distinguished Executive Speaker at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) MBA Global Leadership Course having spoken on international business and policy matters before international audiences. Ms. Fong has served previously on listed company and advisory boards. She is a Member of the California State Bar, serves on the Advisory Committee to ChinaSF and served on various philanthropic and commerce boards throughout Asia and the U.S.
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