Lydia Dunn
Lydia Dunn is an Executive Director of John Swire & Sons Ltd and a Director of HSBC.[1]
Dunn was educated at St. Paul’s Convent School in Hong Kong and University of California, Berkley, California. She joined the Swire Group in Hong Kong in 1963. She has been a director of Swire Pacific Ltd. since 1981 and was a Director of John Swire & Sons (HK) Ltd. from 1978 to 2003. She is a non-executive Deputy Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc.[2]
Dunn was a Member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council in 1981-1995, becoming its Senior Member in 1998-1995; a Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 1976-1988, becoming its Senior Member in 1985-1988. In her work on these bodies, she advised on the formulation of government policies and participated in the enactment of legislation. She was also Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 1983-1991.[3]
Dunn was made an O.B.E in 1978, a C.B.E in 1983, and a D.B.E in 1989. She was made a Life Peer, as Baroness Dunn, in 1990.[4] In July 2010, Dunn stepped down from the House of Lords because of a new legal requirement that Peers become tax-resident in the UK. She retained her title.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Baroness Dunn, Chairman, The Hong Kong Association, Hong Kong Association, accessed 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Baroness Dunn, Chairman, The Hong Kong Association, Hong Kong Association, accessed 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Baroness Dunn, Chairman, The Hong Kong Association, Hong Kong Association, accessed 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Baroness Dunn, Chairman, The Hong Kong Association, Hong Kong Association, accessed 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Five peers resign from Lords to retain non-dom status, New Statesman, 7 July 2010.
