Heard around Hong Kong this month
WITH EACH NEWLY APPOINTED CEO, West Kowloon is looking increasingly like Westeros, the fictional kingdom in TV series . The search is on again after resigned from the position amid acrimonious circumstances in late November, nine months before his contract was due to end. Is the job cursed? Former Disney executive the first CEO, left after 10 days in 2009. formerly artistic director of London’s Barbican Centre, started in August in 2011: the former director of Sydney Opera House vowed there was nothing that would make him quit. “Worst case scenario? I guess I could die,” he said. Lynch quit in 2015, a year earlier than agreed in his contract, to support his wife through an illness. As the city waits for the next boss to be named, acting CEO a lifelong civil servant, could be the steady hand the beleaguered cultural hub needs. We wish her luck.
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