Marjorie Yang Mun-tak (Traditional Chinese: 楊敏德; born 1952,
Hong KongHong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...
) is a non-official member of the
Executive Council of Hong KongThe Executive Council of Hong Kong is an organ in the executive branch of the government of Hong Kong. It is responsible for assisting the Chief Executive in policy-making. . In other words, it is the cabinet of the Chief Executive.The Executive Council normally meets once a week...
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She is Chairwoman of the Esquel Group, the world's biggest cotton shirt-maker, which was founded by her father in 1978, as well as independent
non-executive directorA non-executive director or outside director is a member of the board of directors of a company who does not form part of the executive management team. He or she is not an employee of the company or affiliated with it in any other way...
of
HSBCHSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales in 1990, and headquartered in London since 1993. As of 2009, it is both the world's largest banking group and the world's 6th largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine.Hong Kong which served as...
, Swire Pacific and Novartis AG. She is a Hong Kong Member of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative ConferenceThe Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
[] , abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China...
. Marjorie Yang is vice-chairman of the
Asia Business CouncilThe Asia Business Council was established in Hong Kong in 2002, and is an independent organization of top executives, typically from leading Asian companies or multinational corporations with significant Asian operations, who share an interest in the policies needed to ensure the continued economic...
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Biography
Yang earned a
B.Sc.A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years ....
degree in Mathematics from the
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
and an
M.B.A.The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
degree from
Harvard Business SchoolHarvard Business School is a graduate business school in Boston, Massachusetts. The school offers a full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, as well as many . The School owns Harvard Business School Publishing, which publishes business books, online management tools for corporate learning, case...
. Her first career, after graduation, was in investment banking at
First BostonFirst Boston Corporation was a New York-based, bulge bracket, investment bank, founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988, when it became "CS First Boston." Globally referred to as Credit Suisse First Boston after 1996, the First Boston part of the name was phased out by...
. In 1995, after her father, Yang Yuan-loong, was diagnosed with cancer, she returned to take the helm of Esquel.