Biography

Christian Stewart

Christian Stewart founded Family Legacy Asia in July 2008 to help Asian families preserve their family wealth for generations by providing them with independent and objective advice on effective family governance practices.

Christian works with enterprising families as a process consultant, coach and family meeting facilitator. He helps families to form their own family council, family constitution and family policies, often in the context of planning for succession. Christian also advises a small number of families on family learning & development, and acts as a chief learning officer.

He is the recipient of the Family Firm Institute's Interdisciplinary Achievement Award for 2021, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field of family enterprise consulting.

In June 2017, Christian received the award for Leading Individual (Advisor) at the WealthBriefingAsia 2017 Awards in Singapore. He is widely regarded by his peers globally as one of Asia's leading experts in the field, and has a client base of families and private client intermediary clients spread throughout the region.

Christian started his career as a Solicitor in private practice in South Australia, where he spent four years helping clients with tax, trusts, wills and estate planning work. When he arrived in Hong Kong at the end of 1994, he joined the tax practice of Price Waterhouse, later being promoted to Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. During his time at PwC he helped found and lead its Trust and Private Client Group, helping the firm build a reputation as one of Hong Kong's leading practices in the trust and estate duty planning area.

Before founding Family Legacy Asia, Christian was a Managing Director and head of the Wealth Advisory Team in Asia for JPMorgan Private Bank for six years. In that capacity, he worked with some of the leading families and Family Offices in Asia on family governance, private trust companies, and succession planning for the family owned business.

While continuing as Managing Director of Family Legacy Asia, from May 2016 to December 2020 Christian was also an associate with Wise Counsel Research, a nonprofit think-tank and boutique consultancy based in Massachusetts, USA, focused on matters of wealth and philanthropy.

Christian currently serves on the Board of the James E. Hughes Jr Foundation.

Christian co-teaches the module on family governance for the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology's MSC in Family Office and Family Business program.

Christian is based in Hong Kong and works with families across the Asia-Pacific region, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Australia.