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Dr. Michael Shih-Ta CHEN was appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of Value Partners Group Limited since 22 October 2007.

Currently, Dr. CHEN serves as a Research Scholar at Bank of Indonesia Institute, an Advisor of the Thompson Center for Business Case Studies at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Case Research Center at Peking University, Guanghua School of Management. He is an Emeritus Member of Harvard Business School’s Asia-Pacific Advisory Board. He was appointed as a member of the Investment Committee of the Croucher Foundation in Hong Kong in January 2015. He was the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Asia Pacific Research Center, the first international research office established by the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Center in October 2005, he worked in both the private and public sectors. Previously, he served as Head of the Risk Management Unit of the Private Sector Operations Department of the Asian Development Bank, Head of International Private Banking in Hong Kong of Standard Chartered Bank, and Regional Director of National Westminster Bank in addition to senior position at Citibank. He served on the boards of a number of companies invested by Asian Development Bank. He also wrote cases and taught at various educational entities and universities.

Dr. CHEN graduated with a BA (Honors) Degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in the U.S.A., received an MBA from Harvard University in the U.S.A. in 1972 and obtained a PhD in Economics from Cornell University in the U.S.A. in 1973.