Poman Lo
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Poman Lo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Education | Duke University |
| Occupation | Business executive |
Poman Lo (Chinese: 羅寶文; born 1979) is a Hong Kong business executive serving as the vice chairman of Century City International Holdings Limited and vice chairman and managing director of Regal Hotels Group. Century City Group comprises a total of five listed entities in Hong Kong, including Century City International Holdings Limited (investment holding), Paliburg Holdings Limited (property development and investment), Regal Hotels International Holdings Limited (hotel operation and management), Regal Real Estate Investment Trust (first hotel REIT in Hong Kong), and Cosmopolitan International Holdings Limited (China real estate and investments).[1]
Poman serves as an adjunct professor teaching sustainable business management and impact investing at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology[2] and The University of Hong Kong. She founded the non-profit Institute of Sustainability and Technology[3] with a mission to nurture the next generation of transformative leaders who can drive systemic change for collective well-being in the world. Additionally, she founded the non-profit One Earth Summit[4] and One Earth Alliance[5] to kickstart the impact movement by building an ecosystem to support innovations and drive systemic change through strategic cross-sector partnerships.
Poman has been officially appointed as Member of Chief Executive's Policy Unit Expert Group,[6] Member of the Green Technology and Finance Development Committee,[7] member of the Advisory Committee on Mental Health[8], Council Member of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,[9]Advisory Committee of the School of Chinese Medicine at University of Hong Kong, Foundation Member of Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, member of the advisory board of the Hong Kong Academy of Wealth Legacy,[10] Member of the Curriculum Development Council Standing Committee on Values Education,[11] and also serves as the honorary president of Hong Kong Federation of Women. As a global champion of Sustainable development, Poman takes an active leadership role at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). She was appointed co-chair of the ESBN Finance Task Force and member of the executive committee of ESBN,[12] and serves as chair of the Asia Pacific Business Forum Organizing Committee and chair of Asia Pacific Green Deal for Business Committee.[13] She is also the Community Chair of FBN Asia Impact at FBN Asia.[14]
She is a public speaker in the areas of sustainability, green finance, and management, including having accepted invitations to speak by the Milken Institute,[15] UN Global Compact Leaders Summit,[16] Financial Times,[17] and South China Morning Post.[18]
In 2015, she became the first female Asian recipient of the Oslo Business for Peace Award by the Business for Peace Foundation in Norway.[19] In 2023, She was awarded the “Business Person of the Year Award” at the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards.[20]
Poman is the granddaughter of Hong Kong property tycoon Lo Ying-shek, who co-founded Great Eagle Holdings and was known locally as the "tycoon of Hong Kong hotels." She is the daughter of Lo Yuk-sui, the chairman and CEO of Century City International Holdings, Paliburg Holdings, Regal Hotels International Holdings and Cosmopolitan International Holdings, and the chairman of Regal REIT.
At 14, Poman became the youngest person to have won the "Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award", which is an annual student contest which since 1985 has selected the region's most promising students based on the following criteria: outstanding academic performance, extracurricular achievement, community service track record, commitment to society, leadership potential and morality. She later became the only awardee to also be subsequently selected for the Outstanding Young Person of the World Award.[21] A child prodigy, Poman was awarded the Angier B. Duke Scholarship at 15 and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in psychology from Duke University at 19.[22] In 2005, she co-authored a chapter in the book Asian Culture and Psychotherapy, with Professor Fanny M. Cheung and Professor Yiqun Gan[23] which examined the influence of sociocultural context on individuals' manifestations of abnormal behavior that affect treatment outcomes of psychotherapy amongst Chinese patients.
Bodhi Love Foundation
Poman founded Bodhi Love Foundation (BLF) in 2013.[24] In 2015, the organization attained Section 88 tax exempt charity status from the Inland Revenue Department.[25] The charity has organized several charitable events and student competitions, in addition to donating towards various causes such as the Bodhi Love Foundation Entrance Scholarship for Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine at the City University of Hong Kong.[26] From 2020-2021, the best-selling author of "Emotional Intelligence", Dr. Daniel Goleman, served as an advisor to the charity.[27] As of 2021, the Foundation has focused on providing mindfulness-based training to educators and parents through its SEED (Social, Emotional and Ethical Development) program. As of 2022, it has implemented SEED in 11 pilot kindergartens where instructors have trained over 100 teachers in mindfulness.
Bodhi and Friends
Children's books
In 2006, Poman turned her poodle into a cartoon character named Bodhi. Working with students from a local vocational institute in Hong Kong, Poman launched a comic series that was published daily in Metro Daily and weekly in East Week and Whiz Kids Express, reaching a total of 1.5 million potential readers every week.[28] In 2007, she published a Chinese children's book entitled Bodhi Happy Family – Moral and Civic Education, which is a collection of comic stories intended to inspire moral development in youngsters.[29] In 2010, she published 5 Quotients to Success, a compilation of pictures and original comic artwork paired with inspirational quotes. Poman donated the author's royalties received for both books entirely to support Po Leung Kuk's Language Training Program for orphans.
Animated series
In 2012, Poman founded Century Innovative Technology to build Bodhi and Friends as a household brand in China.[30] In 2014, the first season of her 3D animated television series, Bodhi and Friends, made its CCTV Children Channel debut during the winter holiday at 6 p.m. prime time.