Chung To
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Chung To | |
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杜聰 | |
| Born | |
| Other names | Du Cong |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Harvard University |
Chung To (Chinese: 杜聰; born 1966 or 1967) is a Chinese AIDS activist. He founded the Chi Heng Foundation (CHF) in 1998, which primarily serves AIDS orphans in Hong Kong and mainland China.[1][2][3]
Chung To was born in British Hong Kong . His family was originally from northern China（ Hebei province ), with his grandfather working in the railroad industry. They fled to Hong Kong in 1937 under threat of Japanese invasion.[4]
As a child, his family moved to the United States, in hopes of giving To and his sister, Wing, a good education. As a result, he has dual American and Hong Kong citizenship. In the 1980s, To came out to his friends as gay.[4] He received his bachelor's degree in engineering from Columbia University, and a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University in 1991.[2][4][5]
After graduating, To worked as an investment banker for a decade,[2] first working on Wall Street for Lehman Brothers and then in Hong Kong for firm UBS beginning in 1995.[4]
