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Hong Kong businessman
the businessman

Richard Li Tzar kai is a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. The founder and chairman of the private investment group Pacific Century Group (PCG),
Li started his career in the 1990s with the founding of STAR TV, a pan Asian television network. PCG acquired the asset management business of AIG Investments Li and his older brother Victor spent their childhoods in Hong Kong, where Li attended St. Paul's Co educational College. He left Hong Kong at age thirteen to be educated at Menlo School in Atherton, California. In high school, he worked at McDonald's and as a caddy at the local golf course. He studied computer engineering at Stanford University until 1987. Citing personal reasons, he withdrew from university after three years.

In September 2009, Li oversaw PCG's acquisition of AIG Investments for around $500 million, renaming the asset management company PineBridge Investments. Re entering the insurance business, With backing by Swiss Re, Li expanded FWD Group through acquisitions, appointing Ronald Arculli as FWD chairman in October 2013. In 2015, Li then appointed former Canadian foreign affairs minister John Baird as a non executive director to both FWD and PineBridge.

After Li purchased the Hanazono resort in Niseko, Hokkaido in 2007 nearing completion by late 2019. In 2018, Li was quoted stating that his insurance businesses took up "70% to 80% of his time," with Li focused on expanding FWD in the Southeast Asian markets. In 2019, FWD had around $30 billion in assets under management. Under Li, the insurance group bolttech was launched in early 2020. He continued to chair Pacific Century Group in 2020, As of December 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth at $4.5 billion, ranking him 20th on its list of the richest businesspeople in Hong Kong, and 401st on its list of the world's billionaires. He was previously the Governor of the World Economic Forum for Information Technologies and Telecommunications, He was praised by the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Rita Lau, for "helping [to] raise Hong Kong's profile in this important regional business forum". Li served as a council member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, but his association with the university has since ended. He is a full member of the Hong Kong Computer Society. Through PCCW, Li has overseen a number of relief efforts and charity programs. During the 2002–03 SARS outbreak, PCCW provided telecommunication services to patients, medical staff, and fundraisers. Li also established a story time program for children kept home to prevent infection, and call centre support for charity fundraisers and community activists. Under Li, PCCW also donated $1 million to the Business Community Relief Fund for Victims of SARS, with employees volunteering man hours as well. Later in 2007, PCCW volunteers participated in the District Elderly Campaign, which delivers gift packages to the elderly. After the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic, Li's PCG donated surgical masks to health care workers and NGOs in Hong Kong in February 2020.

Li was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia in November 2011. He has also been presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for "outstanding business and charitable contributions to Canada."

Li's girlfriend Isabella Leong, a former Hong Kong singer, gave birth to their son Ethan in April 2008, followed by twin sons in June 2010. Leong announced in March 2011 that the couple had amicably ended their relationship and that both would be caring for the children. Li is a licensed pilot in the United States and Canada, as well as a licensed divemaster. In 2016, Li bought his own top level domain (. richardli) for $250,000.