George Chen Managing Director and Co-Chair, Digital Practice The Asia Group George Chen is a practitioner/scholar with over two decades of expertise across media, technology, and public policy. Currently, George is Managing Director (Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan Offices) and Co-Chair of Digital Practice for The Asia Group, advising Fortune 500 clients on geopolitics, national security, and various regulatory issues. Prior to this role, George was Meta/Facebook’s first and most senior policy leader for Greater China, Mongolia and Central Asia for over seven years having previously served editorial and management positions for media organizations for more than a decade. Concurrently, George is also a Senior Fellow of Centre for Civil Society and Governance at The University of Hong Kong. George has been named a Salzburg Global Fellow (2024), Visiting Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei (2023), an alumnus of U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program (2015), Yale World Fellow at Yale University (2014) and an Asia 21 young leadership fellow of the Asia Society (2007). In 2022 George was awarded the “Medal of Friendship” by the President of Mongolia, one of the country’s highest and most rare honours for foreigners. George has been on the Board of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong since 2019 and is an author of three books.
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