Dominic Ng

Ng was born in Hong Kong in 1959[3] and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston.

Ng spent ten years as a Certified Public Accountant with Deloitte & Touche in Houston and Los Angeles.[4]

In 1991, Ng was hired by Pasadena-based East West Bank to be its third chairman, president and CEO.[5]

Ng has served on numerous boards of directors including those of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch,[6] the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures,[7][8] Mattel,[9] the Asia Society,[10] Los Angeles Mayor's Trade Advisory Council,[11] United Way of Greater Los Angeles,[12] PacifiCare Health Systems[13] and Town Hall Los Angeles. He is on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California,[14] the Board of Visitors of the Anderson School at UCLA,[15] and the Financial Institutions Advisory Committee of the California State Treasurer.

Ng has been involved in various facets of China–U.S. relations, cultural and political, for much of his career. He has been a speaker at the Boao Forum for Asia,[16] China-United States Exchange Foundation,[17] the Asia Society,[18] the Chinese CEO Organization, Federal Reserve Bank, Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Milken Institute,[19] the United States Conference of Mayors[20] and United Way.

Ng has advocated for and sponsored the showcasing of Chinese culture and art by major U.S. institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,[21] Huntington Library,[22] Bowers Museum,[23] and the USC Pacific Asia Museum.[24]

In 2000, Ng became a member of Committee of 100[25] and served as chairman from 2011 to 2014.[26]

In 2022, Ng was appointed by the Biden administration to be a U.S. member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council,[2] and later that year was announced to chair the 2023 APEC summit to be hosted by the U.S.[2] In February 2023, Republican representatives asked the FBI to investigate Ng's ties to front organizations of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department,[27] citing his being listed as an executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA) between 2013 and 2017[28] and of the China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA) starting in 2019.[29] A spokesperson for East West Bank described Ng's position with the COEA as being strictly honorary and involving no attendance and stated that Ng had never accepted any position with the COFA.[27] Several members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus characterized the request for investigation as being fundamentally racist in nature.[30]

Ng has been recognized for his work by the Los Angeles Times;[31] Forbes;[32][33] United Way Worldwide;[34] the Anti-Defamation League, Pacific Southwest Region;[35] the Sino-U.S. Times;[36] the Los Angeles Business Journal;[37][38] Los Angeles's Central City Association;[39] the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation;[40] the Alfred Mann Foundation;[41] Ernst & Young;[15] American Banker;[42] and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.[43][44]