Mr Patrick CHEUNG

Personal Profile

Mr Patrick Cheung is a serial-entrepreneur. He started his career working for a multinational company and set up its Asian business. In 1992, he founded his own company in the flexible packaging business in China, and in 15 years' time turned it into a leading player in China with a turnover of HK$ 1 billion. At the age of 50, Mr Cheung sold his company and devoted himself full time to promoting social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and China.

Mr Cheung has been setting examples for social innovation. He is currently one of the vice-chairpersons of Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum, the leading social entrepreneurship platform in Hong Kong which he helped to found in 2008. He successfully brought Dialogue in the Dark to Hong Kong in 2009 and quickly achieved financial sustainability without donation and government funding. In 2010 he established Water Drops Foundation which supports and promotes social entrepreneurship. Mr Cheung devotes most of his time now to launching Jade Club, a new social enterprise aiming at bringing innovations to the elder care sector.

Mr Cheung graduated from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) with BSc. degree in Industrial Engineering. He attended the PMD programme at Harvard Business School, and Management Training at INSEAD. He also holds a master degree in international relation and public affairs from HKU.

Expectation towards Social Innovation and the SIE Fund

"How innovative a city is determines its future position in the global economy, as well as whether her citizens enjoy working and living there. The world has changed and governance is not the job for the government only. Traditional interest groups lobbying through elected representatives to protect their interest in a zero-sum game no longer works in a more networked society. The genuine tripartite cooperation between government, business and civic society will open up a collaborative governance with many social innovative ideas to make our city better. My wish for SIE Fund Task Force is for us to set a good example/role model through our successful work on how collaborative governance could transform the policy-decision process in Hong Kong."