Mr Jamie Allen is the founding Secretary General of ACGA, which was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1999. He is a published author and has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer, editor and analyst covering Greater China and East Asia from Hong Kong. Prior to ACGA, he ran his own consulting firm and carried out customised economic research for multinational clients in Asia. From 1992 to 1995, he was editor of Business Asia for the Economist Intelligence Unit and a contributor to The Economist magazine from 1994 to 1996. From 2001 to 2007, he served on the Public Shareholders Group formed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. From 2006 to 2010, he served on the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He has served on the Operations Oversight Committee of the Financial Reporting Council since July 2013. In 2017, he received an International Corporate Governance Network Lifetime Achievement Award and a Regional CG Recognition Award from the Minority Shareholders Watch Group of Malaysia. He is a graduate of the Australian National University, Canberra, where he received a BA (Hons) in political science and Chinese language. He studied Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan from 1983 to 1984.