The Foundation’s Founder and Chairman is Robert Hung-Ngai Ho. Born in Hong Kong, Mr. Ho is the grandson of Sir Robert Ho Tung and Lady Clara Ho Tung, and the son of General Ho Shai Lai and Hesta Ho Hung Ki Fun. Mr. Ho was educated at Lingnan and Pui Ching Middle Schools in Hong Kong. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at Colgate University and his Master of Science degree in Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the United States.

He spent his business career in journalism and in managing his family’s property and investment business. Since his retirement, he has focused on philanthropy, through personal gifts as well as through this Foundation. He has also perpetuated the legacy of his grandparents, in particular his grandmother, Lady Clara Ho Tung, by establishing Tung Lin Kok Yuen, Canada Society, in 1994 in Vancouver. He also founded the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation in 2005 to endow chairs and research programmes in Buddhist studies.