[Season 2] 07. Edith Shih, Executive Director & Former Head Group General Counsel, CK Hutchison Holdings
Edith Shih is an Executive Director and the former Head Group General Counsel of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, a Global Fortune 500 conglomerate.
CK Hutchison is one of the largest companies listed on the main board of The Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has five core businesses: ports, retail, infrastructure, energy and telecommunications. If you’ve spent time in Asia or Europe, you may be familiar with some of CK Hutchison’s retail brands under its A.S. Watson business, e.g. Watsons, PARKnSHOP, FORTRESS and Watson’s Wine, or its telecommunications networks, e.g. Three in Italy, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Ireland!
Edith was Head Group General Counsel of CK Hutchison and a predecessor entity, Hutchison Whampoa, from 1993 to 2017. She was the recipient of the first Hong Kong In-House Lawyer of the Year Award of Asian Legal Business, the first Asian Woman in Business Law Award of the Legal Media Group and General Counsel of the Year (Asia-Pacific Counsel Awards) of International Law Offices in 2014.
She is also the International President and Executive Committee Chairman of The Chartered Governance Institute as well as a past President and current chairperson of various committees and panels of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries.
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