MTR Corporation Limited announced that Dr Lee Kar-yun (also known as Dr Tony Lee Kar-yun), currently the Operations Director of the Company, will take up an additional role to oversee the Company's Digitalisation and Innovation Department and will be retitled as the Operations and Innovation Director with effect from 1 October 2023. He will continue to be a Member of the Executive Directorate of the Company. With effect from 1 October 2023, Dr Lee will retain his responsibility for the Company's railway-related asset performance, asset management, new railway projects operations planning and development, operations safety and quality in Hong Kong as well as innovation and technological development in Hong Kong Transport Services.

In this regard, he will continue to report directly to the Hong Kong Transport Services Director of the Company, who remains overall responsible for the Company's railway operations in Hong Kong. In addition, Dr Lee will also oversee the Company's Digitalisation and Innovation Department with a view to establishing an integrated technology and innovation framework across the Company and will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company on corporate-wide technology and innovation-related matters, with effect from 1 October 2023. Dr Lee (aged 62) joined the Company in 1991 and has held various management positions related to the design, construction, operations and maintenance of the Company's railway system in Hong Kong.

He took up the position of Chief of Operations Engineering in September 2013 and was appointed as Deputy Operations Director in November 2019. Dr Lee has been the Operations Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate since 1 January 2020. He is also the Chairman of MTR Lab Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and a director of some of the members of the Company's group.

Dr Lee is a Chartered Engineer and is a Member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, The Institution of Engineering and Technology and The Hong Kong Institute of Directors. He is also a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of The University of Hong Kong, the Engineering Discipline Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education and a Member of the Technical Committee of National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (Hong Kong Branch). Dr Lee holds a Doctoral degree in Engineering and a Master degree in Philosophy both from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Open University of Hong Kong (now known as Hong Kong Metropolitan University).

Dr Lee has signed a side letter with the Company to reflect his new position and additional role mentioned above, which will take effect from 1 October 2023, and to extend his term of service for one year until 31 December 2024, with no change to the other existing terms (including remuneration) of his existing service agreement.