Deputy Executive Director
Patrick Lau

Deputy Executive Director

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Dr Patrick Lau has been Deputy Executive Director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) since 2019. In this role, Dr Lau helps create opportunities and facilitates deals for Hong Kong businesses. His portfolio covers the promotion of Hong Kong’s service sectors, merchandise trade and innovation, as well as the HKTDC’s external relations, corporate communications and marketing and its network of 50 offices worldwide.

Dr Lau has diverse experience in executive management, business development, commercial law, funds and investment banking, covering a range of sectors including property, telecom, infrastructure, technology and life sciences, among others.

From 2001 to 2014, Dr Lau was based in Hong Kong where he worked as a lawyer at international law firms Baker McKenzie and Skadden Arps, and later became an investment banker at UBS AG and China Construction Bank (CCB) International where he held progressively senior posts until becoming Managing Director, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Assistant Head of Investment Bank. Between 2015 and 2018, Dr Lau was the CEO of a digital infrastructure company, Director of Investments at the Malaysian Government's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, and Board Director and Investment Committee Member of venture and private equity fund Xeraya Capital.

Dr Lau has successfully handled numerous commercial transactions, joint ventures, restructurings and capital market exercises, and is recognised as a seasoned banker, investor and dealmaker in the region. He has deep knowledge of Hong Kong, Mainland China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) markets and has also worked with many clients and parties from Europe, the Americas and Middle East.

Dr Lau graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Laws with first-class honours from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he attended medical school and law school concurrently. He has been admitted as an advocate or solicitor in Hong Kong, Australia, England, Wales and Malaysia. He was Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Monash University and part-time Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.

劉會平先生自 2019 年出任香港貿易發展局副總裁,專責為港商創造機遇、促成交易。他主管拓展香港服務業、商品貿易及創新、以及貿發局對外事務、傳訊及推廣事務、和該局全球50個內地及海外辦事處。

劉先生在行政管理、業務發展、商業法、基金及投資銀行方面具豐富經驗,並涉足多個領域包括地產、電訊、基礎設施、科技及生命科學等。

2001至2014年,劉先生在香港工作,先任職國際律師事務所Baker McKenzie和Skadden Arps,其後轉型為投資銀行家,先後加入瑞銀以及建銀國際,位至董事總經理兼收購合併主管及投資銀行助理主管。 2015至2018年,他出任一家數碼基建公司的行政總裁、馬來西亞政府主權財富基金Khazanah Nasional的投資總監,以及風險投資和私募基金Xeraya Capital的董事和投資委員會成員。

劉先生是區內經驗豐富的銀行家、投資者及交易促成者,成功處理無數商業交易、合資、重組等資本市場活動。他熟悉香港、中國內地及東盟市場,並與歐美及中東客戶和機構合作。

劉先生於澳洲墨爾本蒙納士大學同時修讀醫學及法律,並取得內外全科醫學士以及法學學士一級榮譽學位。他亦考獲香港特別行政區、澳洲、英格蘭、威爾斯及馬來西亞的執業律師資格。劉先生曾任蒙納士大學商業及經濟學院榮譽高級講師,以及香港大學法學院兼職講師。