The Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence Programme comes back to campus this year from 19 to 21 October under the theme of “Boundless for Infinity”. Alumna Stephanie Hung King-chung (New Asia College business administration graduate, class of 1991), chief information officer and director general at information technology department of Asian Development Bank will share her insights and personal trajectories with the University community.

Through the six programmes spanning three days, Stephanie will enlighten students and young alumni with different perspectives on interdisciplinary developments enabled by and stepped beyond foci of undergraduate studies. Additionally, she will mentor five students who are aspiring to carve a path in the technology industry for six months, gearing them up with the invaluable knowledge and insights needed to excel in the world of technology. Registered participants of designated programmes will have the chance of being selected as mentees.

Below is a brief profile of this year’s alumna guest:

An innovative and dynamic leader, alumna Stephanie Hung is the chief information officer of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and director general of the bank’s Information Technology Department. The ADB is an inter-governmental financial institution in the Asia-Pacific region that aims to promote economic and social development in Asia. Stephanie is responsible for ADB’s digital strategies and transformation, and its IT infrastructure, operations and talent spanning across more than 30 countries. In ADB, she serves to create values through digital transformation enabled ADB to drive climate change actions, economic growth, gender equality, fostering financial inclusivity, sustainability, and prosperity in the development member countries that ADB operate. With many years of experience in technology sector at IBM, HP, Microsoft, startups, and ST Engineering servicing clients from enterprises in airlines and airports, banking and financial services institutions, manufacturing and consumer packaged goods industry, to education, health care, public safety, national security and government sectors, she has accumulated many complex projects and industry knowledge in the business IT alignments and digital transformation journeys. Apart from garnering professional knowledge in sales management, large deal pursuit and negotiation, product development and marketing, service delivery and operations, entrepreneurship, corporate financial and risks management, she has also provided business advisory to startups in new ventures and enterprises in driving the digital transformation, industrial internet of things, cyber security, software defined cloud and edge computing, sustainability, and digital resilience.

Stephanie has been appointed as the member of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Vice-Chancellor’s Global Alumni Advisory Board since 2021. She is also the member of Industry Advisory Panel for Career Attachment Office at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Besides being an executive committee member of Women in Tech Chapter of Singapore Computer Society from 2020 to 2022, she became the honoree of the Singapore SG 100 IT Women in 2020 over 1,000 nominations. She is one of first 10 industry members in Singapore Computer Society in attaining Certificate of Senior Professionals in AI Ethics and Governance.

Stephanie received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with High Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and certificate in International Director Program and Corporate Governance in INSEAD Business School.

Places are limited. Register now to meet her in person.