The Baroness DUNN DBE 鄧蓮如男爵

Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, DBE was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in Hong Kong in 1985-1988 and 1988-1995, after Rogerio Hyndman Lobo and Chung Sze Yuen respectively. She has been deputy chairman of banking giant HSBC in 1992-2008.

As one of the most senior politicians in Hong Kong, Dunn had considerable influence in the Government of Hong Kong before her retirement in 1992, after Chris Patten was made Governor.

Dunn is the daughter of late Yen Chuen Yih Dunn and Bessie Dunn. She is married to Michael David Thomas, CMG, QC, Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1983 to 1988.

Educated at St. Paul's Convent School in Hong Kong, and at the College of the Holy Names in California, as well as at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Swire Group in 1964 and now she is an Executive Director of John Swire & Sons Limited and a Director of Swire Pacific Limited. She was appointed to a seat on the Legislative Council in 1976.

Being a non-executive director since 1990 and a non-executive Deputy Chairman in 1992-2008 of the HSBC Group, she also served as a non-executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited from 1981 to 1996.

She was created a DBE in 1989, and in 1990 made a life peer as Baroness Dunn, of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong and of Knightsbridge in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. She is also the first Chinese female to be made a Dame.