Consultant Chairman Emeritus, Sotheby’s Asia; Founding Advisory Board Member, Zheng He Bella Romaine

Mr. Ching was the Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby’s Asia from 2006 and retired in December 2021.

He was responsible for developing the strategic expansion of the company in the region, particularly into mainland China. Under his strategic leadership, Sotheby's Asia achieved an over US$ 1 billion total of auctions and private sales in 2011. In 2012, Sotheby’s established Sotheby’s (Beijing) Auction Co., Ltd. the first international fine art auction house in China, in partnership with Beijing GeHua Art Company. The historic inaugural auction held on the 27th of September 2012 took the world by storm.

Prior to Sotheby’s Asia, he was a board executive director and group legal counsel of Dickson Concepts (International) Limited. He was in charge of its legal and general business affairs in the international world of luxury, and led business development and operations of luxury retail in China.

Formally a partner in Johnson Stokes & Master, one of the largest law firms in Hong Kong, he specialised in the areas of banking, international shipping, commercial law, investments in China, as well as sino-foreign joint ventures and arbitration.