Nicholas Charles Allen

Independent Non-executive Director

Nicholas Charles Allen

Chairman of Human Resources & Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee; and Member of Audit & Risk Committee, Finance & General Committee and Sustainability Committee

Aged 69
Appointed on 12 May 2009 (15 years)​
Last re-elected+ on 5 May 2023


Skills and Expertise

  • Board / board committees leadership / other listed roles
  • CLP market experience
  • Related industry / global experience
  • Professional and risk & compliance
  • Sustainability
  • Technology

Titles, Qualifications and Education

  • Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Bachelor of Arts in Economics / Social Studies, the University of Manchester

Other Major Offices

  • Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.# (Independent Non-executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee and member of Risk Committee)
  • The London Metal Exchange (Non-executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee and member of Remuneration Committee)
  • LME Clear Limited (Non-executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, and member of Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee)

Past Experience

Mr Allen joined Coopers & Lybrand (C&L) in London in 1977 and was transferred to C&L Hong Kong in 1983.  He was admitted to partnership in C&L Hong Kong in 1988, which was subsequently merged with Price Waterhouse into PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 1998.  Mr Allen retired from PwC in 2007.

 

Mr Allen was an Independent Non-executive Director of Lenovo Group Ltd.# (until July 2021) and an Independent Non-executive Director of Link Asset Management Ltd.# (as manager of Link Real Estate Investment Trust) (until 1 August 2024).


+Under the Company’s Articles of Association on retirement and rotation for the re-election of Directors, Directors would typically serve a period of three years since the year of last election or re-election; however at times, depending on the number of Directors on the Board, the term may be for a period of two years.

 

#The securities of these companies are currently listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

 

Latest update: 24 February 2025

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