Grace has more than twenty years of banking and finance industry experience. From 2013 until early 2022, Grace was a senior executive with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) during which she spearheaded, amongst other policies, regular reviews of HKEX’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting Guide and in 2020, initiated a new business for HKEX in green and sustainable finance and founded HKEX’s Sustainable and Green Exchange (STAGE).

In 2021, Grace drove and led discussions with government agencies on market development and carbon market workstream in order to develop Hong Kong into a regional green finance center.

Grace is an independent non-executive director of a company listed on HKEX.  She is an honorary adviser to the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC, a statutory regulator); a member of both the AFRC’s Inspection Committee and the AFRC’s Sustainability and Climate Action Task Force; a member of the Sustainability Committee of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants; and a member of both the Finance Management Committee and the Global Centre for ESG Education and Research Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Management Association.