The New World Order: How UK Trade is Navigating the Global Power Shift

Brian Davidson CMG
Consul General of the United Kingdom to Hong Kong and Macao

Brian Davidson CMG serves as Her Majesty’s Consul General to Hong Kong and Non-Resident Consul General to Macao, having taken up the position in July 2021.

Brian joined the FCO in 1985 and has served in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai in China, and in Lithuania and Australia, before his most recent overseas posting as Ambassador to Thailand. While in the UK, Brian has worked for the Cabinet Office as an analyst on international terrorism and on secondment to International Financial Services London as Deputy Chief Executive.

Brian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Cambridge University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, some Lithuanian and Thai.

Brian married his husband, Scott, in 2014 in one of the first same-sex marriages performed at the British Embassy Beijing. They are now the happy parents of three children.

Keith Pogson
Vice Chair, The British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

Keith is a Non-Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). He sits on the Remuneration Committee, Nominations Committee of SFC. He is currently a Senior Advisor with EY. With over 35 years of experience, He was previously the founder and first Regional Managing Partner for the Financial Services business across Asia Pacific at EY. He is the Chair of the Global Public Policy Bank Working Group, where the Big 4 + 2 Accounting firms meet with the FSB and Official Sector.

Previously Mr Pogson was the Chairman (2022-2023), Deputy Chairman (2020 2022) and Member (2016-2020) of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong’s Main Board and GEM Board Listing Committees.

Mr Pogson has a BSc in Management Science from the University of Warwick. He is a Fellow, and has served as President of the HKICPA (2012). He is also a Fellow of the ICAEW and also the HKSI. He also presently serves on a number of working groups for the FSDC