Marjorie Yang Mun-tak is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

Executive Council of Hong Kong

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She is Chairwoman of the Esquel Group, the world's biggest cotton shirt-maker, which was founded by her father in 1978, as well as independent non-executive director

Non-executive director

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 of HSBC

HSBC

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, Swire Pacific and Novartis AG. She is a Hong Kong Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

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. Marjorie Yang is vice-chairman of the Asia Business Council

Asia Business Council

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. Fortune magazine has ranked Marjorie Yang 39th on its annual ranking of international 50 most powerful businesswomen in the world in 2009. Marjorie ranked 41 on Fortune’s list in 2005, 44 in 2004 and 48 in 2000.

Biography

Yang earned a B.Sc.

Bachelor of Science

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 degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 and an M.B.A.

Master of Business Administration

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 degree from Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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. Her first career, after graduation, was in investment banking at First Boston

First Boston

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. In 1995, after her father, Yang Yuan-loong, was diagnosed with cancer, she returned to take the helm of Esquel.