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Michael Kadoorie
The Honourable Sir Michael David Kadoorie, GBS (born 1941, Hong Kong) is a business executive and philanthropist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.clpgroup.com/ourcompany/aboutus/leadership/boardofdirectors/Pages/director_biography.aspx?DirectorID=1 )〕 As of March 2011, he is the 6th wealthiest person in Hong Kong, with the wealth of his family estimated to be 9.5 billion US dollars according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires.
==Family and early life==
Born to a Jewish family,〔(South China Morning Post: "Patriarchs and The Pen" ) 30 November, 2003〕 the son of business tycoon Lawrence Kadoorie (1899–1993) and his wife, Muriel Gubbay. Kadoorie was educated at Kowloon Junior School in Hong Kong as well as Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. His family’s roots in business in the Far East go back to his grandfather, a descendant of Iraqi Jews originally from Baghdad, who first settled in Shanghai in 1880. After a spell in Bombay, India, his grandfather made a fortune in Shanghai, mostly lost in 1949, and later, in Hong Kong through finance, real estate and utilities. Headquartered in Hong Kong soon after 1949, Kadoorie's father and uncle successfully expanded the family businesses into a diversified group, led by the company flagship CLP Holdings Ltd.〔
Kadoorie is the Chairman of CLP Holdings Ltd. which his family founded in 1890 and in which they still hold a 35% stake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=512256&ticker=2:HK&previousCapId=410418&previousTitle=HYSAN%20DEVELOPMENT%20CO )〕 The utility company provides electricity to 75% of Hong Kong as sole operator (licensed through a Scheme of Control) in Kowloon and the New Territories, and has equity interests in power plants in China, Southeast Asia, Australia and India. He is also the Chairman of the family's second largest listed group, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, owners and operators of the world-renowned Peninsula Hotel Group. He controls and is a director of Metrojet Ltd. Heliservices (Hong Kong) Limited and has initiated CLP Research Institute (a subsidiary of CLP Holdings which looks into renewable energy development). He holds a number of directorships in other non-Kadoorie companies. He was a member of the Council of the University of Hong Kong and, in 2000, the Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building opened at the university.〔(HKU Biological Science Building - Basic Data )〕
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