Recently, the Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Mr Tang Ping-keung, re-appointed Dr. Eric Choi, Chairman of AMTD Group and Founder and Chairman of AMTD Charitable Foundation, as a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Education Trust Fund for Prisoners , starting from December 2022. It will take effect on the 1st and serve a term of three years. This is the second time that Eric Choi has been appointed by the Hong Kong SAR government to serve as a member of this advisory committee after the expiration of this position from January 1, 2019 to November 30, 2022.

 

The appointment letter of Dr. Choi Chi-kin signed by the Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Tang Ping-keung

 

 

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced in the Gazette that Kevin Choi was re-appointed as a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Prisoners’ Education Trust Fund

 

The new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Prisoners’ Education Trust Fund Investment Advisory Committee is composed of 5 members, including Choi Chi-kin. In order to support and assist inmates who are interested in studying but need financial assistance to pay for school fees, the Hong Kong government established the Prisoners’ Education Trust Fund Ordinance, Chapter 467 of the Laws of Hong Kong, in December 1995 The Education Trust Fund aims to provide financial assistance to individual prisoners on their application in their efforts to obtain education and to provide educational facilities to prisoners.

Calvin Choi said, "Caring for and supporting the group of prisoners who are interested in further studies and self-reliance is a task worthy of attention. As a comprehensive enterprise group rooted in Hong Kong, based in the Bay Area, backed by the motherland, and facing global development, AMTD has always been I am committed to contributing to the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, especially the cultivation of Hong Kong’s youth. I hope to do my best to help inmates rebuild good values, accumulate knowledge and increase their knowledge, so that they can reintegrate well into society in the future.”