Kenneth Fok

Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, JP (Chinese: 霍啟剛; born 2 July 1979) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician. He is the eldest grandson of tycoon Henry Fok and eldest son of Timothy Fok. He is the vice president of the Fok Ying Tung Group, vice president of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Biography

Fok was born into the prominent pro-Beijing business family. His grandfather, Henry Fok, was a Hong Kong real estate developer, president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Football Association, and was one of the first Hong Kong entrepreneur to invest in the mainland China in 1980s. He rose to become the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). His father, Timothy Fok, is also president of the Hong Kong Football Association and the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, member of the CPPCC National Committee and former member of the Legislative Council for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication functional constituency. His mother, Loletta Chu, was the winner of the 1977 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.

Fok was graduated from the Oxford University with a Bachelor degree in Economics and Management before he returned to Hong Kong to joined his family business and subsequently became the vice president of the Fok Ying Tung Group. Due to his family's political background and influence in the sports development, he was appointed to serve on various government advisory and statutory bodies, including the chair of the Committee of Youth Activities in Hong Kong, member of the Youth Development Commission, Commission on Poverty, and Betting and Lotteries Commission; executive vice chair of Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation, standing committee member of Youth Committee of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, standing committee member of the All-China Youth Federation, and vice chairman of Tianjin Youth Federation and trustee of the China Oxford Scholarship Fund. He is also vice chairman of Elite Sports Committee and ex-officio member of Sports Commission of Home Affairs Bureau, vice president of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, president of the Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong, China, director of Hong Kong Sports Institute, a committee member of International Relations Committee of Olympic Council of Asia, president of Asian Electronic Sports Federation, and member of International Experts Committee For Global Active City Asian Standard. Other public offices he holds include member of the Hong Kong Art Development Council, adviser of the Association of Chinese Culture of Hong Kong, adviser of the Hong Kong Culture and Art Promotion Association and the chairman of the Culture Action.

His appointment as vice president to the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, where his father Timothy Fok is a long-time president, was scrutinised by the media, which claimed that Timothy Fok appointed his son without transparency, and that Kenneth Fok had no record in any type of sporting achievement.

Fok was appointed member of the Tianjin Municipal Committee Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was also appointed as a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit during the Donald Tsang administration from 2008 to 2009. He was also appointed member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, following the paths of his grandfather and father. In 2016, he was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong government.

Personal life

Fok met China's "princess of diving", multi-time Olympic gold medallist Guo Jingjing in 2004. The couple married on 8 November 2012 and have a son and two younger daughters. In 2019, his father Timothy gifted a HK$160 million house in Repulse Bay for Kenneth and his family.