Marjorie Yang
Marjorie Yang is the Chairman of Esquel Group, a leading Hong Kong-based textile and apparel manufacturer with operations throughout the world.
Marjorie serves as Chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), with the purpose of providing advice to the Mayor of Seoul. She is also the appointed representative of Hong Kong, China to APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and a member of Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development, a high-level body to advise the Chief Executive on Hong Kong’s future development and strategies for driving innovation. She served as a Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from 2003 to 2018.
Marjorie is dedicated to promoting education and innovative technologies. She is the Co-chairman of the advisory board of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of CoolThink@JC, which is created and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. She also serves as a member of various advisory boards including Harvard University, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Tsinghua University’s School of Economics & Management and Guilin Tourism University. She was the Chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for six years until 2015.
As a strong believer in sustainable development and environmental conservation, Marjorie serves in the Advisory Council of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Natural Resources Defense Council in China.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
