Gary Liu

Gary Liu is CEO of the South China Morning Post, a global news media company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century, and served as Hong Kong’s newspaper of record. Gary is also a board member of INMA and advisory board member of the Student of the Year Awards in Hong Kong. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019.

Prior to joining the SCMP in January 2017, Gary was CEO of Digg, spearheading the New York startup’s transformation from aggregator to a data-driven news platform. Previously, Gary was Head of Labs at Spotify, after joining the company as Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. He has also worked at AOL and Google.

Born in the United States, Gary holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University, and grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, before returning to the American Northeast where he lived and worked for 20 years. He currently lives in Hong Kong with his wife Katrina, a pedodontic dentist.

He joined the Board of Support! in August 2017, having been the first guest on our Leaders of Hong Kong Series, and has served as Vice Chairman since August 2020.