Ferheen Mahomed is currently group general counsel and a member of the Management Committee for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. Prior to this, she was the executive vice president for the Pacific Century Group, the family office of a conglomerate having interests in property, hotel, telecoms, insurance and asset management. She was also group general counsel for CLSA Asia Pacific Markets after spending 14 years as Asia Pacific general counsel for Societe Generale. Ferheen is both a U.K. and Hong Kong qualified lawyer having previously worked in Slaughter and May in Hong Kong and London. Ferheen is also as a director of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation (Hong Kong) Limited. AUW's goal is to ensure the long term sustainability of the University which provides education for under-privileged women from Asia. She is a law graduate from the University of Hong Kong and a Rhodes Scholar to St. John's College Oxford, holding a Bachelor of Civil Law Degree from Oxford.