Financial Secretary Antony Leung's primary duty had been to oversee policy formulation and implementation in financial, monetary, economic and employment matters.

Before assuming his post on May 1, 2001, Leung served in senior management positions of major international banks in Hong Kong. He joined the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 1996, which was renamed J.P. Morgan Chase & Co following the merger of Chase and J.P. Morgan in 2000. He was Asia-Pacific chairman for the firm.

Prior to this, Leung spent 23 years with Citicorp where he took regional management positions in investment banking, corporate and private banking in Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and Manila.

In the public arena, Leung was a non-official member of the Executive Council from July 1997 to April 2001.

He was educated in Hong Kong and holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree, majoring in economics and statistics, from the University of Hong Kong.

He completed the Harvard Business School抯 Programme for Management Development in 1982 and the Advanced Management Programme in 1999. He was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1998.

Leung was born in Hong Kong in 1952.

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