About

With more than 260,000 employees worldwide and business interests in 52 countries, CK Hutchison Holdings became Hong Kong’s largest conglomerate after the merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and its main associate company Hutchison Whampoa in 2015. As head group general counsel and company secretary, Edith Shih is responsible for the legal, regulatory and compliance affairs of the newly formed company and supervises over 200 lawyers in approximately 60 offices and 22 countries. She has been quoted as saying ‘the most valuable asset in any legal department, are its employees, so I spend a lot of time grooming them and interviewing applicants’. Shih had been head of the legal department at Hutchison Whampoa since 1993, and therefore played a leading role in the major reorganisation of CK Hutchison and its affiliated companies in the 2015 merger. Because of the truly international scope of her role and the importance she places on communication and teamwork, Shih holds regional legal conferences solely for her CK Hutchison attorneys and is extremely active in the domestic business community. She holds a number of positions such as member and convener of one of the Financial Reporting Review Panels of the Financial Reporting Council and is a member of the Audit Professional Reform Advisory Group, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She is also chairman of the ICSA China Division and has been the president of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) since December 2011.