Mr Augustine Lui Ngok-che 呂岳枝先生

Year of Award

2024

Biography

Mr Augustine Lui Ngok-che, Chairman of the Lingnan Education Organization (LEO), whose modest family came from Chaoyang City, Guangdong Province, was born in Hong Kong. After high school, he took a professional diploma in accounting at Lingnan College, and then began a career in accounting. In 1990, while working in Singapore, he obtained a Bachelor of Business and an MBA from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, along with an Australian CPA.

Mr Lui experienced a brief period of unemployment in 2001 due to the September 11 attacks, but with the help of Dr Peter Wong Pak-heung, a fellow Lingnanian, he went to work in Mainland China, gaining valuable insights into their accounting practices during the reform and opening-up periods. This laid a firm foundation for his expertise in asset management for Mainland investors when he returned to Hong Kong. He has very frankly expressed his appreciation for the warmth and camaraderie of the Lingnan family, both during his studies and afterwards.

Mr Lui has forged a strong bond with Lingnan and played a leading role within the Lingnan community. In 1994, he joined the Lingnan University Alumni Association (Hong Kong), and became a board member of the Lingnan Club. A few years later, he got involved in LEO, and was elected honorary secretary and then vice-chairman of LEO’s Board of Directors, and in 2023 he became chairman.

During his tenure as vice-chairman, Mr Lui persuaded Mainland investors to support Hong Kong’s education sector, and provide LEO with substantial funds to further its educational initiatives. Thanks to the efforts and recommendations of Mr Lui and his colleagues at LEO, and with the unanimous backing of the board, LEO has generously donated considerable sums of money to help transform Lingnan University into a leading research-intensive liberal arts university in the digital era, contributing greatly to the future development of the Lingnan community.