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Dr. Brian L Kieran
Brian Kieran – Attended St. Anselm’s School 1951 to 1955 and St. George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey, 1955 to 1959. He obtained an LL.B. (Hons), King’s College 1963, postgraduate Diploma in Air and...lihat lebih banyakBrian Kieran – Attended St. Anselm’s School 1951 to 1955 and St. George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey, 1955 to 1959. He obtained an LL.B. (Hons), King’s College 1963, postgraduate Diploma in Air and Space Law at University College, University of London; he is a Barrister of Gray’s Inn and Attorney at Law. He began his career as a lawyer with the Inland Revenue, 1959 to 1972; he held a number of positions; inter alia, advising on Conflict of Law issues, Personal Assistant to the Controller of the Estate Duty Office and then in the Office of the Solicitor of Inland Revenue taking civil cases and conducting criminal tax prosecutions in the Courts of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
From 1973 to 1975 he was Legal Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Government of Jamaica, under an Overseas Aid Scheme. Between 1975-1986, he was Legal Counsel on International Taxation to Morgan Grenfell & Co Limited and he set up and became Managing Director of Morgan Grenfell (Cayman) Ltd. He advised on, set up and ran Hong Kong Bank International Trustee Ltd as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in partnership with the Hong and Shanghai Banking Group from 1987 to 1993 in protecting their and clients assets from the takeover of Hong Kong by China in 1997; he moved the headquarter operations from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands in 1990. The protection of assets was resolved when HSBC took over the British Midland Bank Limited in 1993. He established Kieran Associates Ltd in Hong Kong in 1994, with a branch office in Beijing and a Trust Company in Labuan, Malaysia. He retired in 1999 and has spent his time travelling the world carrying out research in Empire and Colonial Archives for his various books.
He joined the Orders and Medals Research Society in 1968, was President of the Hong Kong Branch in the 1990’s and the early years of the twentyfirst century. He was awarded life membership of the Hong Kong Branch in 2007. It was through the auspices of the Anglo Zulu War Society that he attained his higher academic awards, PhD, MA.
He was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 1980 and was awarded a miniature medal of the Polish Virtuti Militari, 5th Class in 1991 for assisting Colonel Wesolowski with his monumental work on the Polish Virtuti Militari.lihat lebih sedikit
Buku oleh Dr. Brian L Kieran
The New Zealand Cross: The Rarest Bravery Award in the World