| Address: |
10-249, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building City University of Hong Kong |
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| Phone: | +852 34425362 |
| Fax: | +852 34420151 |
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| albertip@cityu.edu.hk | |
Mr. Ip is an international banking and real estate executive with more than 30 years of experience at Citigroup, First National Bank of Chicago, Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York City, San Francisco and Hong Kong. His expertise encompasses corporate banking, real estate finance, risk management, transaction banking and wealth management. He was appointed Senior Credit Officer/Real Estate Specialist of Citigroup in 1990, Real Estate Head and North Asia Real Estate Head of Citibank during 1987 to 1992, Corporate Banking Head and Transaction Banking Head, Hong Kong until 2006. Mr. Ip was Asia Investment Finance Head of Citigroup Global Wealth Management from 2006 to 2007. He was Managing Director of Citigroup and a Managing Director of Investments at Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) from 2008 to 2012.
From 2014 to 2019, Mr Ip was Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Langham Hospitality Investments, a listed subsidiary of Great Eagle Holdings. Mr. Ip is an Independent Non-executive Director of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited, Lifestyle International Holdings Limited, New World Development Company Limited, Power Assets Holdings Limited and Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited, as Manager of Hong Kong listed Champion Real Estate Investment Trust. He was previously Independent Non-Executive Director of Hopewell Holdings, Hopewell Highway Infrastructure, New World China Land, TOM Group and AEON Credit Service (Asia).
Mr. Ip is an Adjunct Professor of City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Hong Kong, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Distinguished Professor in Practice of University of Macau. He is a University Court Member, Member of International Advisory Board and Chairman of the Career Development Advisory Committee at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, a Special Advisor to Dean and an Advisory Council of the School of Business & Management, an Industrial Advisory Committee, School of Engineering and an Honorary Advisor of the School of Humanities and Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science, and Technology and Senior Advisor to President of HKUST.
Mr. Ip was a Council Member of HKUST (2016-2022), a trustee of the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis (2017-2021), Board of Governor of Technological & Higher Education Institute (2012-2020), Council Member of Lingnan University (2009-2015) & Council Member of Cornell University (2010-2013). Albert Ip has been appointed as a Member of the Science and Technology Council, Macau SAR from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025.
Mr. Ip holds a Bachelor of Science degree at Washington University in St. Louis (summa cum laude) and Master of Science degrees at Cornell University and Carnegie-Mellon University. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Vocational Training Council, an Honorary Fellow of City University of Hong Kong and an alumni hall of fame at the Electrical and System Engineering of Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
