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| Elsie Leung |
Elsie Leung, who has extensive corporate PR experience, has joined Teneo as managing director in Hong Kong.
She has worked in Hong Kong for Golin (executive VP-corporate & PA), Ruder Finn (deputy gm) and APCO Worldwide (senior consultant).
Most recently, Leung was communications director at the Our Hong Kong Foundation, think tank founded by Hong Kong’s first CEO Tung Chee-hwa, who went on to the vice chairman position at the Beijing’s Chinese People Political Consultative Conference.
Leung played a key communications role in the controversial third-runway project to expand Hong Kong’s International Airport.
Under construction for the past five years, the new runway will open in 2022 and double the capacity of HKIA.
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