Mr Cheung, Chairman of Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, has been Chairman of the URA since 2007 and a board member since 2001.  He is currently Chairman of the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service, an Alternate Chairman of the Pay Trend Survey Committee, and a member of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service.

Mr Cheung was formerly Deputy Chairman of Titan Petrochemicals Group Limited.  He was a former Chairman of the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of the ICAC and a former member of the Energy Advisory Committee. He was a full-time member of the Central Policy Unit on secondment from McKinsey & Company. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in the United States and Asia.

Mr Cheung received a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Sussex and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Date of Appointment       :  1 May 2007