LEE SHAU KEE

WHY HIM? Henderson Land supremo Lee founded the Lee Shau Kee Foundation in 1988, and through it he has made several major donations, including RMB330M (about US$47.4M) to establish Mainland China’s largest agricultural training programme; HK$500M to the University of Hong Kong; and, in May 2018, HK$100M to the Hang Seng Management College.

DIGGING DEEP Lee stated in a biography that he would donate a further Hk$1bn to charity if the Hang Seng Index climbed above 30,000 points. When exactly that happened on November 22, 2017, a spokesperson announced he would donate the money to “charities and education programmes.”