2025 Judging Panel

Chairman

Mr Tim Lui GBS, JP

Mr Lui is a Fellow Member of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He was elected President of HKICPA in 1997.

Mr Lui had an extensive career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he served in the position of Senior Tax Partner, Lead Director of the Board of Partners, Member of the Global Board and Senior Advisor.

Mr Lui has been active in public and community service. He is currently Chairman of the University Grants Committee. In the past, he was Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission, the Education Commission and the Standing Committee on Directorate Salaries and Conditions of Service. He was also a Member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee and the Public Service Commission.

Professor Aris Stouraitis
Professor, Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance
Director, Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy
Programme Director, Master of Science in Finance (FinTech and Financial Analytics)
Hong Kong Baptist University

Professor Aris Stouraitis is Professor of Finance in the Department of Accountancy, Economics & Finance, Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance & Financial Policy, and Programme Director of the MSc in Finance (FinTech & Financial Analytics) at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in economics, accounting and finance from the American College of Greece, MSc in Management from INSEAD (France), and PhD in Finance from Imperial College London (United Kingdom).

His academic research interests are in corporate finance, with emphasis on corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and corruption. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance and other international academic journals. He has made presentations at conferences organized by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Harvard Business School, the European Finance Association, the Asian Finance Association, and in more than 30 other international academic conferences worldwide. His research or commentary has been quoted in media outlets worldwide, including Bloomberg, The Economist, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times and The Business Times (Singapore), Hong Kong Economic Journal, Handelsblatt (Germany) and Superinteressante (Brazil).

He is a member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA).

Ms. Nelly Pai
Managing Director
Head of Hong Kong IPO and Corporate Finance Group
J.P. Morgan

Nelly is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and the Head of Hong Kong IPO and Corporate Finance Group, responsible for Hong Kong IPO execution and communication with the Stock Exchange in the Asia Pacific region. She has over 20 years of experience in public and private financing in the capital market. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2010, Nelly worked in China Investment Banking of UBS and Deutsche Bank for many years. Nelly is also a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong and the US with extensive experience in the Corporate Finance team in PwC Hong Kong and Beijing.

Nelly is highly recognized by clients and market practitioners. She has led numerous landmark capital market transactions, covering high-profile clients in mainland China, Hong Kong and other Asia Pacific regions. She has rich experience in IPO execution, advised a large number of Hong Kong listings of state-owned enterprises (SOE), multinational corporations, new economy companies and industry-leading companies. In recent years, Nelly executed the unprecedented secondary listings and dual primary listings of Greater China issuers, steering the market trend of homecoming listings in Hong Kong.

Nelly is also a pioneer in the Hong Kong capital market. She has been invited as guest speaker to various industry forums and interviewed by multiple Hong Kong media. With her keen industry insights and rich market experience, Nelly serves as an important bridge of communication among corporates, investors and the regulators, and she has been promoting reforms to enhancing the Hong Kong listing regime.

Mr. Anthony Cheung
Supervisory Board member of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)
Managing Director & Head of ESG, Polymer Capital Management

Mr Anthony Cheung specializes in Green & Sustainable Investment, ESG Investing and Climate Governance in Asia. Anthony is the Managing Director, Head of ESG at Polymer Capital Management and he has served various asset management roles in London, Singapore and Hong Kong including Gartmore, Pictet and BNP Paribas. Mr. Cheung is a Visiting Fellow of Sustainability & Capital Markets at University of Hamburg. He was the first in Asia who attained the Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA®) designation and was awarded Regional ESG Leader Award by Insights and Mandate (I&M) in 2019.

Mr. Cheung actively advocates sustainability governance best practice. He currently serves as Supervisory Board member of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), and Steering Committee member of the World Economic Forum Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) Hong Kong. With his deep ESG expertise, coupled with his experience serving in various industry positions and board directorships, Mr. Cheung works closely with financial industry and asset owners to promote ESG best practices and initiatives in Asia.

Ms. Caroline Chiu
Assurance Partner and Hong Kong Professional Practice Director
Ernst & Young

Ms. Caroline Chiu is an Assurance partner and the Hong Kong Professional Practice Director of Ernst & Young, with over 25 years of professional experience in the audit and sustainability practice, serving private and listed companies in a broad range of industries and sectors in Hong Kong, China and the US.  Caroline has extensive experience in serving clients on pre-IPO/IPO transactions and cross border capital market transactions.  She also provides sustainability assurance and advisory services including ESG rating advisory and provides supports to clients on decarbonization roadmap and compliance requirements on ESG related matter.

Caroline is currently a member of the EY Global ISSB Policy Committee, a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) Auditing and Assurance Standard Committee, a member of HKICPA Financial Reporting Standards Committee’s Sustainability Advisory Panel and a member of Financial Reporting Review Panel for the Hong Kong Accounting and Financial Reporting Council.  She is also an advisory member of the Advisory Board on Accountancy of Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Dr. William YU

Dr. William Yu is the Chief Executive Officer of World Green Organisation. He is an energy economist and climate professional by training and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He earned an Executive MBA from the Thunderbird Global Management School, AZU, U.S.. and completed a Sustainable Finance Programme at Cambridge. Additionally, Dr. Yu is the scholarship recipient of the Executive Education in non-profit strategic management at the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Yu is ESBN Task Force Member, The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member in Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE), Environment and Ecology Bureau and member in Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development, HKSAR Government.

Dr. Yu is accredited by UNDP as an official trainer on United Nations SDG Impact Standards. He is also Advisor on Certified ESG Planner (CEP) qualification, and Certified China Carbon Trader of Shanghai Environment Energy Exchange, advising investment banks and several public accounting firms on Forestry Carbon Credit Projects, Valuation of Carbon Assets and Carbon Trading.