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Kenneth Fok

Hong Kong businessman

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Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ8958593 ↗
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Kenneth Fok Kai-kong JP (Chinese: 霍啟剛; born 2 July 1979) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician. The eldest grandson of tycoon Henry Fok and eldest son of Timothy Fok, he is a member of the Legislative Council for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Functional Constituency since 2021. He is the vice president of the Fok Ying Tung Group, vice president of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Biography

Fok was born into a prominent pro-Beijing business family. His grandfather, Henry Fok, was a Hong Kong real estate developer, president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Football Association, and was one of the first Hong Kong entrepreneurs to invest in mainland China, in the 1980s. He rose to become the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). His father, Timothy Fok, was also president of the Hong Kong Football Association and the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and a former member of the Legislative Council for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication functional constituency. His mother, Loletta Chu, was the winner of the 1977 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.

Fok graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford, with a bachelor's degree in economics and management before returning to Hong Kong to join his family business and subsequently become vice president of the Fok Ying Tung Group. With his family's political background and influence in the sports development, he was appointed to serve on various government advisory and statutory bodies, including the chair of the Committee of Youth Activities in Hong Kong, member of the Youth Development Commission, Commission on Poverty, and Betting and Lotteries Commission; executive vice chair of Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation, standing committee member of Youth Committee of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, standing committee member of the All-China Youth Federation, and vice chairman of Tianjin Youth Federation and trustee of the China Oxford Scholarship Fund.

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