Ms Barbara Shiu FHKSI
Chairman, Hong Kong Securities Institute

Ms Shiu is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities Institute. Ms Shiu is also the General Manager of Operational Risk and Compliance Department at the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. Prior to that, she was the Chief Risk Officer of BOC International Holdings Limited, where she oversaw the Risk Management Division, Legal & Compliance Division. At BOCI-Prudential Trustee Limited, she chairs the Audit Committee. Ms Shiu is a member of the Cash Market Consultative Panel of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and a member of the Investment Education Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). ¡@

Ms Shiu was previously Commissioner, Strategy and Development Committee for the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Senior Director of Corporate Finance Division and Intermediary Supervision Division in the SFC, and, at various times, was responsible for the oversight of listing policies, administration of the Hong Kong Takeovers and Mergers code, licensing and ongoing supervision of the over 800 securities intermediaries and the over 10,000 regulated persons in Hong Kong. 

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Before becoming a securities regulator, Ms Shiu had spent many years in the commercial and investment banking field, working both in Hong Kong and North America.  She received her MBA from the Rotman Business School of the University of Toronto.