RICS Appoints East Asia Managing Director

HONG KONG, Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) announces today the appointment of Mr Tony Ho as Managing Director of RICS East Asia. Mr Ho assumed office on the 1st of August 2015.

As the new Managing Director of RICS East Asia, Mr Ho is responsible for overseeing RICS' business development, as well as the recognition of RICS standards and qualifications for the East Asia region, covering Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, South Korea and Macau. He will continuously promote best industry practices, responsible business and membership services.

Commenting on Mr Ho's appointment, Mr Will Myles, Regional Managing Director of RICS Asia Pacific, said "Tony Ho will lead RICS East Asia to align better with our key stakeholders and understand their needs, as well as to give us better scale in serving our markets through teams with expertise in standards and regulation, membership, training and events. With close to 20 years of experience in the real estate sector, he will devote his expertise in supporting the strategic development of RICS East Asia."

A graduate of Indiana State University, Mr Tony Ho has been working in real estate and asset valuation consultation for close to two decades.  He was based in Shanghai during his tenure as the Deputy Director of RICS North Asia last year. Mr Ho proved himself a key contributor in promoting the recognition of RICS standards and qualifications and expanding RICS membership across China.

About RICS

Confidence through Professional Standards

RICS promotes and enforces the highest professional qualifications and standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. Our name promises the consistent delivery of standards -- bringing confidence to the markets we serve.

We accredit 118,000 professionals and any individual or firm registered with RICS is subject to our quality assurance. Their expertise covers property, asset valuation, real estate management; the development of infrastructure; and the management of natural resources, such as mining, farms and woodland. From environmental assessments and building controls to negotiating land rights in an emerging economy; if our members are involved the same professional standards and ethics apply.

We believe that standards underpin effective markets. With up to seventy per cent of the world's wealth bound up in land and real estate, our sector is vital to economic development, helping to support stable, sustainable investment and growth around the globe.

With offices covering the major political and financial centres of the world, our market presence means we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed professional standards. We work at a cross-governmental level, delivering international standards that will support a safe and vibrant marketplace in land, real estate, construction and infrastructure, for the benefit of all.

We are proud of our reputation and work hard to protect it, so clients who work with an RICS professional can have confidence in the quality and ethics of the services they receive.

About RICS Asia

RICS Asia supports a network of over 20,000 individual professionals across the Asia region with an objective to help develop the land, property and construction markets in these countries, by introducing professional standards, best practice education and training. We promote RICS and our members as the natural advisors on all property matters. We also ensure that services and career development opportunities are provided to members.

RICS Asia region serves local member associations locating in Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The People's Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan and South Korea. It also has members working across the region such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Laos PDR, Macao SAR, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, The Maldives, The Philippines, Timor East and Vietnam. For more information, please visit: www.ricsasia.org.

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