Hong Kong’s ‘Conscience’ Prepares to Leave the Stage
David Webb has continued fighting for fairer markets and better-run companies in Hong Kong, despite growing political restrictions and his own illness.
David Webb, activist investor and founder of Webb-site.com, during an event at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong, May 12, 2025. Credit: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images
For decades, David Webb has been on a one-man crusade to expose corporate wrongdoing and demand greater transparency in Asia’s largest financial market.
Now, the voice of this self-appointed guardian of the Hong Kong investing world is fading out. In February, the 59-year old Webb announced he has only months to live, having run out of treatment options for metastatic prostate cancer. In March, he stepped down from his advisory role at market regulator the Securities and Futures Commission
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