• Board / board committees leadership
• CLP market experience
• Global market experience
• Other industries
• Other listed board roles
• Professional (Accounting)
• Related industry experience (Property / Retail)
• Risk & compliance
• Technology

• 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

• 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)

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).