Laura Lung Cha J.D. ’82 is a member of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and Non-Exectutive Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. Between 2001 and 2004, she served as the Vice Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the first person to be invited from outside Mainland China to serve in the central government of the People’s Republic of China. She is currently the Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the CSRC. Before joining CSRC, Cha was with the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 1991 to early 2001. She is an independent Non-Executive Director of the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited and China Telecom Corporation Limited as well as a Senior Advisor to Investor AB, a Swedish listed company. Cha practiced law in the 1980s in San Francisco with Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, and in Hong Kong with Coudert Brothers. Cha was awarded a Gold Bauhinia Star in July 2009 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001 by the Hong Kong Government for her public service. She has also been awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Law in 2002 by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.