Pansy Ho

Chairperson, Executive Director, MGM China Holdings

 

Pansy Ho’s reign in Macau is stronger than ever

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Pansy Ho is known as much for her business acumen as her tireless promotion of tourism development in Hong Kong and Macau, which is more important than ever for the two cities.

Ho is the chairperson, executive director and a member of the Remuneration Committee of MGM China Holdings Limited, a leading developer, owner and operator of gaming and lodging resorts in the Greater China region. Since June 2005, she has also served the managing director of MGM Grand Paradise, which holds one of the six gaming concessions or subconcessions to run casino games in Macau.

As founder and chairman, Ho oversees the Global Tourism Economy Research Centre, and is the vice-chairman and secretary-general of Global Tourism Economy Forum, a vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Macau Chamber of Commerce and a vice-chairman of the Macau Convention & Exhibition Association. In 2022 she was appointed to the board of trustees of the Cultural Development Fund in Macau. She is also an executive committee member of the World Travel & Tourism Council, and was the United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s first ever Tourism Ambassador in Asia in 2018.

Named by Bloomberg as Hong Kong’s richest woman in 2018, the casino magnate and daughter of Stanley and Lucina Ho is a major shareholder in her late father’s Macau casino operator SJM; and the group executive chairman and managing director of Shun Tak Holdings, which runs the Hong Kong-Macau ferry service as well as a number of luxury hotels. Besides these positions, she is a director of a number of privately held companies, including Grand Paradise Macau Limited, Grand Paradise Grupo S.A., New Corporate Enterprises Limited, Bright Elite Holdings Limited and Grand Paradise Group (HK) Limited. Since 2021, she has been the vice-chairman and non-executive director of Phoenix Media Investment (Holdings) Limited. Additionally, she is the chairman of the board of directors of gaming company Estoril-Sol, SGPS, SA and was an independent non-executive director of Sing Tao News Corporation Limited. Ho is also the vice chairman of the board of directors of Macau International Airport Company Limited.

A chairperson of the Hong Kong Federation of Women, she is also governor of Our Hong Kong Foundation Ltd. Ho has been appointed as a member to the National Committee of the 14th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (“CPPCC”) and has been elected to join the Standing Committee of the 14th CPPCC.

Pansy Ho was appointed as Justice of the Peace in 2015 and was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 2020 by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She was also given the Medal of Merit—Tourism by the government of the Macau SAR in 2019.

Impacted Industries


Awards


2020

Silver Bauhinia Star (Hong Kong SAR)

2019

Medal of Merit-Tourism (Macau SAR)

2015

Justice of the Peace

Did You Know?


Pansy Ho was briefly an actor in the 1980s, starring in TVB series Breakthrough.

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