The board of directors of Hanison Construction Holdings Limited announced that Dr. Chan Fan Cheong, Tony has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 18 April 2023. Dr. Chan Fan Cheong, Tony, aged 71, is the third president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ("KAUST") since September 2018. He is on the Board of Trustees/Directors of: KAUST Investment Management Company, US; King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology, Future Investment Initiative (FII Institute), KSA; Riyadh BioTech City, KSA; Skolkovo, Russia; The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences and Yidan Prize Foundation, Hong Kong.

He is (was) on the Advisory Board/Committee of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, China; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KSA; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea; NEOM, KSA (2018-2020); Saudi Data and AI (SDAIA) Supervisory National Strategy Committee of Data and AI, Saudi Arabia; RIKEN, Japan; SUSTech, China and University of Vienna (2015-2020). Dr. Chan is the only non-Saudi member of KSA's new Research Development and Innovation Supreme Committee, an ambitious plan to restructure and upgrade KSA's RDI ecosystem. He was a co-founder, Director (2000-2001) and Board member (2009-2020) of the US NSF Math Institute IPAM.

Before KAUST, Dr. Chan was the president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2009-2018), and Assistant Director of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the US National Science Foundation (2006-2009). Dr. Chan taught Computer Science at Yale University before joining UCLA as Professor of Mathematics in 1986 and was the Chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1997 and Dean of Physical Sciences (1991-1996). Dr. Chan received his BS and MS degrees in Engineering from Caltech and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

He is a member of US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Society for Industrial & Applied Math. Dr. Chan was awarded the 2020 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, and the Honorary Doctorates from University of Strathclyde (2015) and University of Waterloo (2022).