Victor L.L. Chu

Victor L.L. Chu (born 1957, British Citizen) has been a member of the Boards of Zurich Financial Services Ltd and of Zurich Insurance Company since April 2008.

Since 1982 Mr. Chu has practiced in the field of corporate, commercial and securities laws, with special emphasis on China and regional investment transactions. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Chu was deputy secretary-general of the International Bar Association. Since 1988 he has served as chairman of First Eastern Investment Group, a leading direct investment firm focusing on China. He is also chairman of First Eastern Investment Bank Limited and FE Securities Limited.

Over the past 20 years he has served at various times as director and council member of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a member of the Hong Kong Takeovers and Mergers Panel, a member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s advisory committee and a part-time member of the Hong Kong Government’s Central Policy Unit. He is currently a foundation board member of the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the Forum’s International Business Council. He is also an executive board member of the International Chamber of Commerce, for which he chairs the Commission on Financial Services and Insurance. Mr. Chu is a trustee of the International Crisis Group in Brussels and the WWF in Hong Kong. Over the last three years, he has also served as a member of the dean’s council of the Kennedy School at Harvard, the board of Foreign Affairs University of China, and until September 2008 the governing council of University College, London. Mr. Chu’s other civic associations include service on the advisory bodies of Asia House, Asia Foundation, Beijing Music Festival Foundation, the East Asia Institute of Cambridge University and the Atlantic Council of the USA.

Mr. Chu graduated with a LL.B from the University College London in 1979. He is admitted to practice law in England and Hong Kong.