Mrs. Su-Mei Thompson is CEO of The Womenˇ¦s Foundation, a NGO dedicated to the advancement of women and girls in Hong Kong through research, community programmes, and education and advocacy. TWF's signature programmes include a Financial Literacy and Employability Programme for marginalised communities of women and its Life Skills and Gender Awareness Programmes for adolescent girls and boys. Meanwhile, TWF's highly acclaimed Mentoring Programme for Women Leaders and Leading Women Speaker Series are helping to build the pipeline of female talent for senior executive and non-executive roles. In 2013, Su-Mei founded the 30% Club HK, a group of chairmen and CEO leaders who are committed to bringing more women onto corporate boards.
Su-Mei started her career at Linklaters as a corporate finance associate and went on to hold senior management positions at The Walt Disney Company, the Financial Times, and Christieˇ¦s. A Cambridge, Oxford and IMD graduate, Su-Mei is also a recipient of the Andy Choa Scholarship which sponsors Hong Kong NGO leaders to attend the SPNM programme at Harvard Business School. She is a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of Hong Kong, she serves on the board of Natural Beauty Bio-technology Limited and Opera HK, and she is a council member of The Cheltenham Ladies College, her alma mater.