Ms. Dee Poon is the Managing Director of Brands and Distribution at Esquel Group, a global leading textile and apparel manufacturer with operations located worldwide.

Ms. Poon is a board member of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (Hong Kong) and M Plus Museum Limited. She is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of Harvard University’s Asia Center (Cambridge, MA), the Family Advisory Council of the Ownership Project at Oxford Saïd, as well as on the Global Steering Committee of Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (Hong Kong & London). She serves on The Conference Board’s Asia Corporate Leadership Council. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Esquel-Y.L. Yang Education Foundation. In 2014, Ms. Poon was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and designated a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s China Fellowship Program.

Actively engaged in the arts, Ms. Poon sits on the International Council of the Tate (London), and the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art (New York). She serves on the Board of Directors of the China Arts Foundation (Beijing & New York). Ms. Poon has also been on the Performance Committee at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), a member of the Lincoln Center China Advisory Council (New York), and was a co-founder of the Ambassadors of Design (Hong Kong). Her 42-second short film “An Exercise in Futility,” shot as part of 42×42, was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival as well as the Cannes Film Festival.

Before joining Esquel, Ms. Poon was an Editor-at-Large for iLook Magazine and a featured columnist for Modern Weekly, where she wrote about sustainability. Her 2008 pop-up retail venture DYSEMEVAS was one of the first to highlight the emerging Chinese design scene outside of China.

Ms. Poon graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a BA in philosophy.