Margaret Leung is General Manager Global Co-Head Commercial Banking for the HSBC Group, with responsibility for the Group’s relationship with all middle market corporates and small and medium enterprises in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

 Mrs. Leung joined HSBC in 1978 to work in the International Corporate Account Division in the Group’s Head Office in Hong Kong. She moved to Australia to help set up HongkongBank of Australia Ltd (now HSBC Bank Australia) in 1985. On returning to Hong Kong in 1988, she held a number of positions before being appointed Head of Corporate Banking in 2000 with responsibility for large multinational corporate customers.  She was appointed a Group General Manager of the HSBC Group in 2005.

 Mrs. Leung is a director of HSBC Investments (Hong Kong) Limited, HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings Limited and HSBC Precision Printing (Hong Kong) Limited.  

 Mrs. Leung is a member of a number of Government and Industry Committees: Real Estate/Infrastructure Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Sub-Committee on the Promotion of Corporate Volunteering of the Social Welfare Department; ReSource The Counselling Centre; Board of Governors of Junior Achievement Hong Kong; Hong Kong Exporters’ Association; Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation Advisory Board; Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Railway Objections Hearing Panel; and Federation of Hong Kong Industries: Ad Hoc Committee for International Outreach and Multi-national Corporations.

 Mrs. Leung graduated in 1975 from the University of Hong Kong with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Accounting and Business Administration.

 Mrs. Leung is married with two daughters.