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Jun 2025
17m 28s

Business Daily meets: Activist investor ...

Bbc World Service
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David Webb has spent decades campaigning for the rights of ordinary investors in Hong Kong.

Since arriving in the city from the UK as a young investment banker 30 years ago, he’s taken on tycoons, exposed corporate wrongdoing, and pushed for transparency in one of the world’s most complex financial hubs. Now, as the activist investor’s life comes to an end following a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2020, he's been reflecting on his life in the corporate world.

He's spoken to the BBC's Martin Yip.

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Martin Yip Producer: Niamh McDermott

(Image: David Webb, activist investor and founder of Webb-site.com, speaks during a farewell event at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong on 12 May 2025. Credit: Getty Images)

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