Andrew Sheng

Tan Sri Andrew Sheng SBS (born 1946), is Hong Kong–based Malaysian banker, academic and commentator. He started his career as an accountant and is now a distinguished fellow of Fung Global Institute, a global think tank based in Hong Kong. He served as chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) before his replacement by Martin Wheatley in 2005. In 2026, he was appointed as the adviser for the government of Sabah in economic matters by the state chief minister.

Early life Sheng grew up in British North Borneo (today Sabah, Malaysia). He left Malaysia in 1965 to attend the University of Bristol in England, where he studied economics. In 2005, he stepped down in favour of Wheatley, who had joined the SFC the year prior after being removed from his position at the London Stock Exchange. Sheng became president of Fung Global Institute, an independent, global think tank based in Hong Kong, in 2011. Since 2011, Sheng has written columns for Project Syndicate, a non-profit international media organisation.

In 2012, Sheng was awarded by the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI Institute) as Honorary Fellow. Since 2013, Sheng is also the chief adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission and a board member of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia. In addition, he serves as a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation, the China Development Bank, the Advisory Council on Shanghai as an International Financial Centre and the International Council of the Free University of Berlin. He is also an adjunct professor at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Beijing and the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. In 2013, Time magazine named Sheng as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

In 2026, Sheng was appointed by the state government of Sabah as the special adviser to the Chief Minister Hajiji Noor to assist the government in the economic and investment sectors.