Thank you for Joining our International Women’s Day Lunch 2025

Last Friday, we held our International Women’s Day Lunch to celebrate the progress we’ve collectively made to close the gender gap and raise critical funds for our work. We were humbled by the enthusiastic support from over 460 guests, friends, allies and partners.

We are immensely grateful to our Associate Sponsor Citi for their tremendous dedication. This IWD Lunch would not have been possible without their generous support.

We had an inspiring afternoon with a panel discussion led by Jessica Chan with fantastic speakers, Chen Lu, James Farndon and Vivian Siu who shared how they are inspiring inclusive change in sports. We were touched to hear the incredible sharing by our Girls Go Tech Programme participants and Step into STEM scholarship recipients, Sora Guan and Joyce Kwok.

We would also like to thank our amazing emcee, Robyn Lamsam, fundraising host, Peyami Kalyoncu and pledge co-leads, Kristi Swartz and Sam Gourlay.

We’re deeply grateful to our Platinum Sponsors: Blackrock, Bloomberg, DFI Retail Group and the Financial Times.

Thanks also to our Gold Table Sponsors: Bank of America, BNP Paribas, British Consulate General, Champion REIT, Estée Lauder Companies, Fidelity International, Hang Seng Bank, Maples Group and Stephenson Harwood; as well as our Silver Table Sponsors: Bird & Bird, Clifford Chance, CLP, Cooley, Formalighting, Leathwaite, Mourant, Stratford Finance and Tanner de Witt.

We are grateful to our Media Partner, Tatler, and our Supporting Partners: Create Productions, Just Photo, La Maison du Chocolat, Moonlight Entertainment, Time to Gold and Victoria Wines. Thanks also to our Prize Sponsors: Bonjour, Hung Fook Tong, Nomad Caviar, Sasa, Sense by Mei and Simatelex.

Thank you to our fantastic photographers Isaac Lawrence, Jayne Russell and Justin Tang.

Thank you to everyone who helped us raise critical funds to support TWF’s research, advocacy and programmes to improve the lives of women and girls in Hong Kong.

With our collective efforts to accelerate action, we are confident we can step into a gender equal future together.