Profile of Professor Y.B. Yeung

Professor YB Yeung is currently an Adjunct Professor with City University of Hong Kong.

Professor Yeung has over 39 years of IT experience with large international financial institutions in both Hong Kong and Canada. Prior to joining the City University, Professor Yeung held the position of Assistant General Manager, Chief Information Officer for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation(HSBC) for Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. With over 3,000 IT staff reporting to him, his responsibilities covered setting and directing IT strategy, software design and development, IT operations and telecommunications. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Bank.

Apart from his duties in HSBC, Professor Yeung had been a Board member of the Belgium based company SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) since 1994, representing Hong Kong and HSBC. In addition to his main board duties, Professor Yeung was Chairman of the SWIFT Technology and Production Committee, Chairman of the SWIFT Asia Pacific Council and Chairman of the Hong Kong SWIFT User Group.

Professor Yeung retired from HSBC on 1 April, 2006. After his retirement, he accepted several HKSAR government appointments. The first one is an appointment to the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board by the Financial Secretary. The second one is a committee member of the Qualification Framework project sponsored by the Education and Manpower Bureau. In September, 2007, Professor Yeung was appointed to the Board of the Lottery Fund Committee in Hong Kong. In 2009, he was appointed to be a member of the ICT consultation committee of the Employees Retraining Board and a member of the Accreditation Committee for Computer Science Programmes of the HK Institute of Engineers.