Lee Quo-wei

Sir Quo-wei Lee GBM CBE JP (Chinese: 利國偉; pinyin: Lì Guówěi; 5 August 1918 – 10 August 2013), with family roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, was a prominent Hong Kong businessman who served as Chairman of Hang Seng Bank and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lee was awarded Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) in 2006.

[1] Lee was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977, and made a Knight Bachelor in 1988.

In the same year, he was also named as the head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

He died 10 August 2013 at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.