K.K. Chiu is Chief Executive of Greater China at Cushman & Wakefield with over 40 years’ experience in the real estate industry, advising clients of the best solutions across the entire real estate life cycle. Over the past 40 years, K.K. has been a core leader in the company’s Greater China business space. He was the Head of Valuation & Advisory, Asia Pacific, providing strategic advice to clients in support of accounting and public listings, real estate planning, development, and business valuation for numerous corporate operations. Prior to co-founding the company (formerly known as DTZ) in 1993, K.K. worked in another international consultancy firm for nine years, where he was a Director of the Valuation department. 

 

Staying actively involved in the affairs of his profession, K.K. is the representative of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) at the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) and is a member of the Working Group of the Advisory Forum. Between 2005 and 2009, he was a Board Member of IVSC. 

 

He is the Past President (President from 2021 to 2022) and is currently the Chairman of the Housing Policy Panel and Co-Chairman of the Working Group on Sustainability, and formerly the Chairman of the General Practice Division of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (2015 to 2017 and 2017 to 2019). He was also a General Council Member of both the HKIS and the China Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and was a member of the Working Group for Valuation Standards of the HKI,  and the Chairman of the Board of Membership between 1999 and 2005. In the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), K.K. is currently the Chair of the China Regional Advisory Board, and he also served as a member of the Asia Valuation Board between 2010 and 2016 and was the non-executive member of the Asia Pacific World Regional Board and non-executive Co-Chair of the China Regional Advisory Board. 

 

Appointed by the Government of Hong Kong SAR, K.K. was a member of the Land and Development Advisory Committee (LDAC) (2021-2024) under the Development Bureau, and is a member of the Sub-Committee on Planning, Land and Conservation of the Advisory Committee on the Northern Metropolis which advises the Government on policies and procedures in relation to planning, land and building matters. Currently he is a member of the Appeal Board Panel of Town Planning under Town Planning Ordinance, a member of the Estate Agents Authority under the Estate Agents Ordinance, a member of the Antiquities Advisory Board under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance, a Non-Official Non-Executive Director of the Board of the Urban Renewal Authority under the Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance and a Committee Member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Infrastructure Development Advisory Committee.