She worked at Hutchison Telephone in Hong Kong for four years, and for four years in Beijing, China at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel and Tianlun Dynasty Hotel. Through working in Hong Kong and Beijing, Anna acquired solid experience running PR sponsorship programs and major company events, and established networks with the media, and with various companies.
As the director of anna fang public relations, she advises clients on strategic communications and issues management, managing programs to raise CEO and brand profiles through public relations and other communications. This strategy includes one-on-one interviews with targeted regional and international business media such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, CNBC Asia, CNN, Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong Economic Times, Financial Times, Businessweek, South China Morning Post, CFO Asia, Asia Inc, Hong Kong Business and other trade industry media.
Besides her public relations and media relations work in the Asia Pacific Region since 1988, Anna's other passions are the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women and the Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund in the past decade.
She is a past president of the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women (HKABPW) for 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003, and has led the following public relations campaigns and programs from 2003-2009 such as:
- HKABPW Inaugural CEO Women Roundtable in 2003
- Coordinator and Host Organisation for the Corporate Image Building Program for the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women in the fall of 2003 and winter of 2004 (in collaboration with the City University of Hong Kong)
- Co-Founder of the HKABPW Mentoring Program (2003-2005)
- Committee member of the HKABPW 25th Anniversary publication and Gala Celebration (Summer and Fall 2004)
- PR consultant and coordinator with the corporate sponsor - the Center for Creative Leadership's "New Dimensions in Leadership" - collaborative event with the HKABPW - 2006
Organiser for HKABPW's Professional Image and Leadership Event - 2008
- Coordinator for the International Women's Day - "Women and Organisations Helping Hong Kong's Environment" - 2009
She was a member and the Chair of the BPW International Mentoring Program from 2005-2008 and created an in-depth micro-site on the BPW International website on mentoring, and was a member of the BPW International Public Relations Committee from 2005-2008. She assisted BPW International in winning an international award for their website in 2008 - "most improved website" and assisted the International President in producing corporate communication materials.
For the Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund, Anna was the official PR consultant for three years (2002-2004). In the past, she was nominated for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Entrepreneur Magazine), and for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award.
She has now turned her attention to assisting the Satyarit Ray Film and Study Center located at her alma mater of UC Santa Cruz in the USA and this is part of the Department of History. The Ray Film and Study Center is founded by Professor Dilip K. Basu.
Since 2003, she and her business (anna fang public relations) have had a collaborative association with City University of Hong Kong. City University nominates interns to help her in her business with translation and PR assignments, and in turn, she mentors the students.
- anna fang public relations has been a host organisation for the City University of Hong Kong, Department of English, Internship Program / Final Year Project since 2003
- Since the fall of 2009, she has been a host organisation for the City University of Hong Kong, Department of Media and Communication's Integrated Marketing Communication Master's Degree Program
Anna Fang has a Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) and Master's Degree (M.A.) in Comparative History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, specialising in Chinese History, 1911 to the present.
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