Speaker Profile:

Jasper Chung was the Immediate Past Chair of CIMA Hong Kong and serves as the Member of the North Asia Regional Engagement Group of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA-CIMA) during 2022/2023. 

Jasper has over 15 years of management accounting and managerial experience in multinational companies including General Electric, a global technology conglomerate; Richemont, the world’s leading luxury group, and The New York Times, a top-notch international media company. 

He is currently the Head of Corporate Development, Asia Pacific, at The New York Times Company, leading various business strategic projects across APAC with a dual role in managing digital subscription growth in APAC markets. From Dec 2019 to Dec 2022, he was the Board Member & Honorary Treasurer of The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), an NGO based in Hong Kong representing international, regional, and local media companies across Asia.

He completed the CIMA study through the Finance Management Program in GE Healthcare in London prior to returning to Hong Kong in 2010. Subsequently, he joined CIMA Hong Kong branch as a Committee Member to promote the professional qualification and actively advocate the best practices of management accounting and FP&A in industries. 

Jasper has over 10 years of lecturing experience for CIMA, HKICPA, and Kaplan. In recent years he has been a lecturer of Management Accounting of University of London degree program teaching at HKU SPACE. 

Jasper graduated from HKUST with a BBA degree double-major in Finance & Marketing, and The University of Birmingham with an MSc in Accounting & Finance.

In 2015, Jasper was awarded “The Most Promising Finance Talent” in the CGMA CFO Forum.