Mr. Anthony Nightingale, CMG, SBS, JP

Director, Jardine Matheson Group

Anthony Nightingale was Managing Director of the Jardine Matheson Group from 2006 to March 2012, having joined the Board of Jardine Matheson Holdings in 1994. After joining the Group in 1969, he held a number of senior positions until his retirement from executive office in March 2012. Today he is a non-executive director of Jardine Matheson Holdings and of other Jardine Matheson group companies, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, Jardine Strategic and Mandarin Oriental, and a commissioner of Astra International. He is also a non-executive director of Schindler Holding AG, Prudential plc., China Xintiandi Limited and CRUPE International Holdings. He is a senior adviser to Academic Partnerships International and an adviser to Dickson Concepts. Mr. Nightingale is a Hong Kong representative to the APEC Business Advisory Council and chairman of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group. He is a non-official member of the Commission on Strategic Development in Hong Kong, a member of the Securities and Futures Commission Committee on Real Estate Investment Trusts, a council member of the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong and a member of the UK ASEAN Business Council Advisory Panel. He is an Honorary Professor of the School of Business of the Hong Kong Baptist University, a member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School Advisory Council, chairman of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong and the Patron of the Hong Kong Tennis Foundation. He is a past chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Nightingale was born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom in November 1947. He was educated at Uppingham School and graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, with a Bachelor Degree (Honours) in Classics. Mr. Nightingale is married with two children.