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On Feb. 9—Monday morning in Hong Kong—a national security court delivered one of the most severe and symbolic judgments in the city’s modern history: a 20-year prison sentence for 78-year-old media founder and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai.
Edward Chin was formerly country head of a UK publicly listed hedge fund, the largest of its kind measured by asset under management. Outside the hedge funds space, Chin is the convenor of the 2047 Hong Kong Monitor and a senior adviser of Reporters Without Borders. Chin studied speech communication at the University of Minnesota and received his MBA from the University of Toronto.
