Organization Structure

To maintain the professional corporate governance, the MTR Academy is to report to the Council at regular basis.

Council Members

Rex Auyeung Pak-kuen

Dr Auyeung joined the Board as a Non-executive Director on 7 March 2019 and has become the Non-executive Chairman since 1 July 2019. Dr Auyeung is the vice chairman and an independent non-executive director of C-MER Eye Care Holdings Limited, and an independent non-executive director of China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited. He has over 40 years of experience in the insurance industry in Canada and Hong Kong. Before his retirement in June 2017, Dr Auyeung was Chairman – Asia of the Principal Financial Group Inc. ("PFG"), a Fortune 500 company, responsible for PFG’s overall businesses in Asia.  During his time with PFG, Dr Auyeung represented PFG and its member companies across Asia in building and expanding PFG’s relationship with clients, joint venture partners and strategic investors, and assisting in business development across all products lines of PFG.

Dr Auyeung also actively serves the public sector and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Investor and Financial Education Council under the Securities and Futures Commission, a board member of Bo Charity Foundation (Food Angel) and a convenor of the Advisory Committee of the Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project.

Dr Auyeung was previously an independent non-executive director of HSBC Provident Fund Trustee (Hong Kong) Limited, Standard Life (Asia) Limited and Sompo Insurance China Co., Ltd., the chairman of Hong Kong Strategy for Financial Literacy Sub-committee on Stakeholder Coordination and Collaboration, an observer of the Independent Police Complaints Council Observers Scheme, a member of the Independent Review Committee on Hong Kong’s Franchised Bus Service, the chairman of the Council of Lingnan University and the Senior Strategy and Business Advisor at Athenex Inc., a company listed on NASDAQ in the United States of America.

Dr Auyeung holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Urban and Regional Planning) Honours Degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the City University of Hong Kong in 2013 and conferred a Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa, by Lingnan University in 2020. Dr Auyeung was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2018 and was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star medal in 2022.

Dr Jacob Kam Chak-pui

Dr Kam joined the Company in 1995 and had held various management positions in the Operations, Projects and Mainland China and International Business Divisions. He was appointed as the CEO on 1 April 2019, and has been a Member of the Board since then. Before the CEO appointment, Dr Kam was the Operations Director between January 2011 and April 2016 and the Managing Director – Operations and Mainland Business from May 2016. He has been a Member of the Executive Directorate since January 2011.

As the CEO, Dr Kam is responsible for all performance of the Company and its group companies, both in and outside Hong Kong.

Dr Kam is a member of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency Governing Council, the board of directors of The Community Chest of Hong Kong, the General Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the General Committee of the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong, and a council member of The Hong Kong Management Association. He is also an Honorary Chairman of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).

Dr Kam qualified as a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom in 1989.  He is a Council Member and a Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong, and a Chartered Fellow of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health in the United Kingdom. Dr Kam is also a Corporate Member of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Southampton, and a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of London, both in the United Kingdom. Dr Kam was appointed a Justice of the Peace and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Vocational Training Council, both in 2021.

Dr Dorothy Chan Yuen Tak-fai

Dr Chan has joined the Board since 4 July 2013. Dr Chan is currently the Deputy Director (Administration and Resources), Head of Centre for Logistics & Transport and advisor of the International College of the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, and a council member of HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College. She is an independent non-executive director of AMS Public Transport Holdings Limited, the chairperson of the Sustainable Agricultural Development Fund Advisory Committee, a director of TWGHs E-Co Village Limited, a Strategy Advisor to the Serco Group (HK) Limited, a member of the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong Institute for Public Administration, a member of the Commercial Letting Panel under the Board of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, and the Honorary Fellow and an advisor to the Council of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport ("CILT").

Dr Chan was a board member of the Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre Limited, a member of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee and the Advisory Council on Environment of the HKSAR Government, and the International President, the Global Chairperson and a Global Advisor for Women in Logistics and Transport in CILT.  She was previously the Deputy Commissioner for Transport of Government from 1995 to 2002.  From 2000 to 2002, Dr Chan was the Alternate Director to the office of the Commissioner for Transport, a Non-executive Director of the Company.

Dr Chan holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree, a Master of Social Sciences degree in Public Administration and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from The University of Hong Kong.

Mr Cheng Yan-kee

Mr Cheng has joined the Board since 22 May 2019. Mr Cheng is a practising civil and structural engineer, and an Authorised Person and a Registered Structural Engineer under the Buildings Ordinance. He is also a Class 1 Registered Structural Engineer in the People's Republic of China. 


Mr Cheng currently is a director of H. K. Cheng & Partners Limited. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Post-service Employment of Civil Servants and the Advisory Committee on Post-office Employment for Former Chief Executives and Politically Appointed Officials.

Mr Cheng formerly was an independent non-executive director of K. H. Group Holdings Limited, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and Chairman of both the Council of the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee under the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He was also a member of the Hospital Authority, Town Planning Board and Hong Kong Housing Authority.

Mr Cheng is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers in the United Kingdom and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in the United States of America and was conferred Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degrees by the Macau University of Science and Technology in 2017 and the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019. Mr Cheng was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star medal in 2015 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2000.

Sunny Lee Wai-kwong

Mr Lee has joined the Board since 25 May 2022. Mr. Lee has more than 30 years of experience in business and technology management gained in both Hong Kong and overseas. He is the vice-president (Administration) of City University of Hong Kong, and an independent non-executive director of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd and BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited. 

Mr Lee was the executive director of information technology (“IT”) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (“HKJC”), where he served as a member of the board of management and had overall responsibility for HKJC’s IT strategy and innovation. Prior to joining HKJC, Mr Lee held various key positions at The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, including as an executive committee member, and as chief information officer of the group and chief executive officer of two strategic diversification businesses, iCare.com Limited and Towngas Telecommunications Company Limited.

Mr Lee also actively serves in many governing and advisory committees in the academic, professional and community arena. He is the board chairman of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, the chairman of Public Libraries Advisory Committee, an ex-officio member of Committee on Innovation, Technology and Re-industrialisation of the HKSAR and a council member of each of Hong Kong Management Association, Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency and Hong Kong Professionals and Senior Executives Association. 

Mr Lee, formerly, was a president of Hong Kong Computer Society, a chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of IT Professional Certification, a council member of Vocational Training Council, an audit committee member of Hong Kong Housing Society, a member of Working Group of Intellectual Property trading of the HKSAR and a board chairman of Hong Kong Education City.

Mr Lee is a Distinguished Fellow of Hong Kong Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional of The British Computer Society, a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and a Chartered Engineer of United Kingdom Engineering Council.

Mr Lee holds a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, both from Cornell University in the USA. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2010 and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star medal in 2022.

Margaret Cheng Wai-ching

Ms Cheng has been the Human Resources Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate since 1 June 2016 and is currently the President of MTR Academy. Ms Cheng is responsible for all of the Company's human resources and administration affairs.

Ms Cheng is a seasoned human resources practitioner with rich senior management experience. She took up different human resources roles in Citibank, N.A. between 1993 and 1997, and was with JP Morgan as Vice President, Human Resources between 1997 and 2001. From 2001 to 2013, Ms Cheng was with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ("HSBC") and was Head of Human Resources, Hong Kong and Global Business, Asia Pacific when she left HSBC. Before joining the Company, she was Group Head of Human Resources of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.

Ms Cheng is serving various public duties at the HKSAR Government, including acting as the vice chairman of the Cross-Industry Training Advisory Committee for the Human Resource Management Sector under the Qualifications Framework of Education Bureau; a member of the Standing Committee on Directorate Salaries and Conditions of Service; a member of the Labour Advisory Board Committee on Employment Services of Labour Department; and a member of the Panel of Arbitrators appointed under the Labour Relations Ordinance. She is also the chairman of the Career Development Board of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, a member of the Hospital Authority, a council member of The Hong Kong Management Association, and a member of the Employees Retraining Board.

Ms Cheng is currently the Immediate Past President and a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from The California State University, the United States of America and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Ms Cheng was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2021.

Cheris Lee Yuen Ling

Ms Lee has been the Transformation Programme Manager of MTR since 1 June 2020. She is responsible for driving and orchestrating the transformation of MTR, as the Company is determined to make a bold step change in its strategic, operational, financial, organisational, and social trajectory. She also oversees the Corporate Strategy Department and Global Innovations Department and drives the formation of a new growth engine for MTR.

Ms Lee is an expert in railway operations. She joined MTR in 1994 as a Management Trainee and started her career in MTR thereafter. She has extensive knowledge and experience in station and train crew depot management, railway planning & development, railway safety & quality management systems, railway traffic and railway asset management not only in Hong Kong but also in Shenzhen where she was responsible for the safe and efficient railway operations of respective railway network.

She was involved in the rail merger planning and implementation for the two major railways of Hong Kong and was the Chief of High-Speed Rail before taking up the role of Transformation Programme Manager. She is the Chairman of the Metro Recreation Club, Vice Chairman of the China Hong Kong Railway Institution and a Board member of NP360 and MTR Shenzhen L4 Companies. She is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistic and Transport.

Ms Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from the University of Hong Kong and an MBA in International Management from the University of London.

Chan Hing-keung

Ir HK Chan joined the Company in 1994 and is currently Chief of Operations Engineering Services & Innovation at MTR Corporation in Hong Kong.  Ir Chan acts as the main liaison amongst the various Hong Kong Transport Services Operation Segments in discharging his responsibility in Innovation & Technology development on railway assets through collaboration with local and overseas parties. 

Having led a multi-disciplinary team of operations engineering experts, he has provided engineering support services for integrated detailed design and performance improvement involving train fleets, permanent way, signalling, power systems, control & communication systems, civil and building facilities and environmental systems  with due consideration in satisfying customers and capacity needs while optimising life-cycle costing. 

He has served as an Industrial Advisory Committee member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as well as in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Ir Chan holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Master degree in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. He is a Corporate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers as well as a Chartered Engineer of the United Kingdom Engineering Council.