Douglas Tong Hsu is Chairman and CEO of Far Eastern Group (FEG), one of the largest and most diversified conglomerates based in Taiwan. It is comprised of 229 companies extending into China with operations in countries including Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.  FEG has a workforce of 53,000 in 2010 and has total assets of US $57.9 billion and annual revenues of US $18.1 billion.  The Group has nine public companies, which are leaders in their respective fields including Petrochemicals & Energy; Textile & Polyester Fiber; Cement/Building Material; Sea/Land Transportation; Financial Services; Construction; Telecommunication; Retail/Department Stores and Hotels.  Family Foundations encourage social responsibilities and include the establishment of Taiwan’s leading technical institute, private university, and hospital.

Outside Far Eastern Group, Mr. Hsu’s professional and other affiliations in prominent organizations include: MasterCard Asia/Pacific Regional Advisory Board, Prudential/Asia Pacific Fund, Asia Society in NY, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, the Straits Exchange Foundation, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Asia Business Council, University of Notre Dame, Asian Cultural Council, National Cultural & Arts Foundation, Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation, Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific Council, and Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, Honorary Consulate of the Representative of Ivory Coast in Taipei.

Mr. Hsu graduated from the University of Notre Dame, IN (BA, MA) with post-graduate studies in economics at Columbia University, NY in the US.  Since 2002 he holds an honorary doctorate of management from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.