Peter Woo

Peter Woo
Born	Peter Woo Kwong-ching 1946 Shanghai, China
Residence	Hong Kong
Nationality	China
Occupation	Former chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited and The Wharf Holdings Limited
Net worth	$7.9 billion
Spouse(s)	Bessie Pao(m 1973)
Children	Jacqueline, Jennifer, Douglas

Peter Woo Kwong-ching, GBM, GBS, JP (Chinese:吳光正) (born 1946) is a Hong Kong businessman. He was the chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited (: 0020)and The Wharf Holdings Limited (: 0004) until 19 May 2015.

Woo was born in Shanghai, China and moved to Hong Kong in 1949. He was educated at St Stephen's College, a Direct Subsidy Scheme privately owned but government-funded boarding school (which is also Hong Kong's largest secondary school), in the town of Stanley in Hong Kong, and went on to attain his bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, US, majoring in Physics and Mathematics. While a student at the University of Cincinnati, Woo became a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, an endeavour he is still involved in today. He later obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, USA.

After graduating, Woo worked at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and Hong Kong.

In 1973, he married Bessie Pao. In 1975, he joined his father-in-law, the late Sir Yue-Kong Pao’s Worldwide Shipping Group and was later appointed vice-chairman for the company. In 1986, Woo's father-in-law retired and appointed him the head of the Wheelock / Wharf businesses, while putting the shipping interests (now Bergesen Worldwide) under the control of another son-in-law, Helmut Sohmen.

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