Last year Rory Herbert (GradCG) from the UK and Kate Yuen from Hong Kong were selected to participate in the London-Hong Kong Intern Exchange 2019. They talk to CSj, along with Edith Shih FCIS FCS(PE), International President, The Chartered Governance Institute, and Past President, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (the Institute), about this new initiative to expand the internship opportunities available to trainee governance professional

Can we start by discussing how this internship programme came about?

Edith: ‘Samantha Suen FCIS FCS(PE), Chief Executive of the Institute here in Hong Kong, and I got to know Christina Parry, who was the 2018-2019 Master of The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (WCCSA) in London, a few years ago on a visit to London for a Council meeting of The Chartered Governance Institute. When Christina visited Hong Kong in 2018, we organised a breakfast meeting for her to meet Institute members. We sat down to discuss future collaboration and I mentioned the possibility of doing an international intern exchange. She was really very keen on this idea so we started to work on it. This inaugural London-Hong Kong exchange is only the beginning; I would like to expand this opportunity to all divisions of The Chartered Governance Institute. This idea has the support of The Chartered Governance Institute Council and we are already working on making this multi-jurisdictional.’

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