名譽大學院士
馬時亨教授現為香港鐵路有限公司主席，曾任香港特區政府財經事務及庫務局局長、商務及經濟發展局局長。他現亦擔任富衛集團獨立非執行董事、加拿大赫斯基石油公司董事及中糧集團外部董事。
馬教授獲香港大學文學士(榮譽)學位，主修經濟及歷史。自畢業後，他歷任多所本地和海外銀行、金融及其他機構主要職位，包括美國大通銀行、加拿大皇家銀行多美年證券行、摩根大通銀行、熊谷組和電訊盈科集團等，有豐富的財經金融事務經驗。
他於2002年加入香港特區政府，任職財經事務及庫務局局長，2007年出任商務及經濟發展局局長，2008年因健康理由請辭。
馬教授熱心教育，2002年至2006年在港大設立五項獎學金，幫助歷史學系的學生實現理想。2008年，他獲委任為港大經濟金融學院名譽教授。
此外，馬教授亦獲任為中國投資有限責任公司國際諮詢委員會成員、美國銀行集團全球顧問委員會委員、香港理工大學高級管理深造學院教授及香港中文大學工商管理學院榮譽教授，並於2014年獲嶺南大學頒授榮譽社會科學博士。
他於2009年獲授金紫荊星章， 2010年獲授太平紳士榮銜。
Citation delivered by Professor Eric CHANG, Dean of Business and Economics
Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang is the Chairman of MTR Corporation Limited, former Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury and former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Hong Kong SAR government. He is currently also an Independent Non-Executive Director of FWD Group, a Director of Husky Energy Inc., and a Non-Executive Director of the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO Group).
Professor Ma was born and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1973 majoring in economics and history. After graduation, he held different major positions of various local and overseas banks, financial institutions and major companies, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Royal Bank of Canada Dominion Securities, JP Morgan Chase, Kumagai Gumi (HK) Limited and Pacific Century Cyberworks Limited. He has rich experience in banking and financial sector.
After living in New York, Toronto, London and Paris during a nearly 30-year career in business, Professor Ma joined the Hong Kong SAR Government as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in 2002, and subsequently assumed the post of Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development in 2007.
He brought his professional experience and his admirable ‘people-skills’ to these roles and aimed to strengthen Hong Kong’s overall financial health and its status as an international financial centre. Developing Hong Kong’s public bond market, enhancing its taxation-related competitiveness to attract overseas investors, increasing the operational efficiency of the railway transportation system, and working across bureaus to return the Government’s budget from deficit to surplus – these are just some of the arenas that Professor Ma successfully tackled.
It was a period of great opportunities and challenges that Professor Ma has described as being the “most fulfilling” in his career. But the stress and responsibilities would eventually encroach on an unexpected quarter: his health. Professor Ma resigned from the Government in 2008 due to medical reasons.
Perhaps we can venture to say that the Government’s loss has been academia’s gain!
At the University of Hong Kong, Professor Ma established the Frederick Ma Si Hang Scholarships from 2002 to 2006 for the award of five scholarships to undergraduate students in the Department of History. In 2008, he was appointed Honorary Professor in the HKU School of Economics and Finance, and has shared his experiences and expertise with our students and colleagues, particularly through the Wu Yee Sun Education Fund Lectures.
At the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he is a Professor of Finance Practice in the Institute of Advanced Executive Education, and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences by Lingnan University in 2014.
Professor Ma is a Member of the International Advisory Council of China Investment Corporation and the Global Advisory Council of the Bank of America. He was awarded a Gold Bauhinia Star in 2009, and appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2010.
It gives me great pleasure, Mr Pro-Chancellor, to present Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang for the Honorary University Fellowship, in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong and academia.