Managing Director

Ar Donald Choi Wun Hing, BBS, JP

Ar Donald Choi is a Registered Architect and Authorized Person. He joined the Urban Renewal Authority on 15 June 2025 as Managing Director and Deputy Chairman. He has over 40 years of management experience across real estate investment, property development, and worked as a professional architect globally. Ar Choi believes in the power of people-centric development and humane design to create economic value and enhance the quality of life for all.

Ar Choi served as the CEO of Chinachem Group from 2018 to August 2024 before his retirement. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of the Nan Fung Group and a Director at Foster + Partners. He was the Authorized Person for the CLK HK International Airport, voted one of the Top 10 construction projects of the 20th Century. Ar Choi was awarded the Executive of the Year Award 2021 by DHL-SCMP and won the CEO of the Year Award 2022 given by Real Estate Asia.

Alongside his professional career, Ar Choi has held multiple leadership roles in NGOs and professional bodies that focus on design, innovation, shared value creation, and the community well-being, making him a leading figure in the architecture and development sector. He is currently a Trustee of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Professor of Practice at the School of Design. Ar Choi is an Advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, Urban Land Institute Asia Pacific Housing Council Member, a Member of the Antiquity Advisory Board, a member of the Hospital Governing Committee (HGC) of Hong Kong Eye Hospital & Kowloon Hospital and the Chairman of Sub-committee on Capital Works of the HGC of North District Hospital, and an Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Workers’ Health Centre. He was the Board Vice President of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, Honorary Advisor of the Hong Kong PropTech Association, a Member of the Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development, Advisory Committee Member of the HKTDC Infrastructure Development, Advisory Committee Member of PolyU Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, Member of the HKU Campus Development and Planning Committee, Land and Development Advisory Committee, Chairman of Architects Registration Board,  Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design and the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators. He had served as the Chairperson of the Construction Innovation and Technology Application Centre for six years and was a Board Member of Business Environment Council, Habitat of Humanity Hong Kong, Hong Kong Green Building Council, Hong Kong Design Centre and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation.

Ar Choi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from RISD, a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Additionally, he attained a joint Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hong Kong, London Business School, and Columbia Business School.

Term of Office: 15/6/2025 - 14/6/2028