Lee Shau-kee

Lee Shau-kee Template:Postnominals (Template:Zh; 20 February 1928 – 17 March 2025) was a Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was a real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development, a property conglomerate with interests in property, hotels, restaurants and internet services in Hong Kong and other countries. In 2019, aged 91, Lee stepped down as chairman and managing director of the company, in favour of two of his sons, Peter and Martin Lee. He retained a role as an executive director.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

His personal wealth was estimated by Bloomberg Billionaires Index to be US$23.2 billion at the time of his death, making him the second wealthiest man in Hong Kong (behind Li Ka-shing), and the 89th richest in the world.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, he was the fourth-richest person in the world.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Philanthropy

Lee was one of the main sponsors of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, having donated more than HK$20 million through the Lee Shau Kee Foundation.<ref>HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity "Main sponsor / personMain sponsor / person" Template:Webarchive, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 26 October 2010</ref>

In 2007, he donated HK$500 million to the University of Hong Kong<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and HK$400 million to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2015, Lee donated a site in Yuen Long to charity organisation Po Leung Kuk for it to develop Hong Kong's biggest youth hostel. Lee announced that the units would be leased to young people between the ages of 18 and 30 at half the market rate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Other than public philanthropy, Lee had given his Henderson Land staff cash gifts to celebrate the birth of four of his grandchildren, in amounts totalling HK$60 million over a nine-year period.<ref name="scmp1864594">Template:Cite news</ref>

In May 2018, Lee donated HK$100 million to Hang Seng Management College supporting its strategic development.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Positions

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Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre at The University of Hong Kong

• Founder, ex-Chairman and managing director, of Henderson Land Development<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
• ex-Chairman of Hong Kong and China Gas<ref name=":0" />
• ex-Chairman of Miramar Hotel and Investment<ref name=":0" />
• Vice-Chairman and independent non-executive director of Sun Hung Kai Properties<ref name=":0" />
• Member of board of directors of Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) and the Bank of East Asia<ref name=":0" />
• Named as part of Peter Storrie's consortium to buy Portsmouth Football Club<ref>Names revealed behind Portsmouth chief Storrie's consortium, Tribal Football, 2009</ref>

Personal life and death

Lee had five children, including elder son Peter Lee Ka-kit and younger son Martin Lee Ka-shing, and eight grandchildren.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="scmp1864594"/>

Lee died on the evening of 17 March 2025, at the age of 97.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• List of billionaires
• List of Chinese by net worth
• Bloomberg Index

External links

• Henderson Land Development
• Hong Kong and China Gas (controlled by Lee's Henderson Land Development)
• Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong located in Lee Shau Kee building in Shatin.
• http://www.leeshaukee.com.hk/tch/main/index.aspx