Non-Executive Directors
KONG, Johnson
From 15 Nov 2021
Current appointment expires on 14 Nov 2025
Mr Kong is a Non-Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). He is Managing Director of BDO Limited in Hong Kong.
Educated and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Touché Ross in England, Mr Kong has over 40 years of professional accounting experience.
Mr Kong is a Fellow Member (Practising) of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA), a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), CPA Australia and The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance and Chair of HKICPA’s Governance Committee.
Previously, Mr Kong was President of HKICPA and Chair of its Qualification Oversight Board, Professional Conduct Committee, Nomination Committee, Ethics Committee and Small and Medium Practices Committee, and the inaugural Chairman of its Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty. He was also President of the Hong Kong Institute of Accredited Accounting Technicians. Mr Kong is presently a Council member of the Association of Hong Kong Accounting Advisors, an Alternate Director of the Hong Kong Association of Registered Public Interest Entity Auditors, and a member of ICAEW’s Hong Kong Chapter Committee.
Mr Kong has been active in public service. He is currently an Accounting Advisor (Hong Kong) appointed by the Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China and an Election Committee Member of the HKSAR Government. He is also a member of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s Operations Review Committee and the Panel of the Witness Protection Review Board. In addition, he is a committee member and Honorary Treasurer of The Association of Experts for Modernization, Director of The Hong Kong Coalition of Professional Services and Advisor of ESG Consortium.
Previously, Mr Kong served as a member of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, Advisory Group on Modernisation of Corporate Insolvency Law, Appeal Panel (Housing), Board of Review Panel (Inland Revenue Ordinance) and Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning).
Representing Hong Kong in the international arena, Mr Kong chaired the International Federation of Accountants’ Small and Medium Practices (SMP) Business Support Task Force and was also Deputy Chair of its SMP Advisory Group. He was an Executive Board Member of INSOL.
Mr Kong is Chairman of the SFC’s Audit Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Budget Committee. He also sits on the Remuneration Committee and the SFC (HKEC Listing) Appeals Committee.
Last update: 25 Oct 2024