Legal Director at Royal Dutch Shell
Donny Ching was appointed Legal Director at Royal Dutch Shell plc in February 2014 and is a member of the Executive Committee. He leads a team of almost 1000 staff in 48 countries.
Donny graduated with a law degree from the University of Southampton and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1988. He joined Shell Australia in the same year and re-qualified as a lawyer in Victoria, Australia in 1989. He then worked in different roles with Shell in Hong Kong, London and Singapore before moving to The Hague in 2011 to become the general counsel of Projects & Technology.
Donny has been an active champion of diversity and inclusion in Shell. He participated in a video series by Catalyst on “Men who get it”, was a member of the group’s Asian Talent Council for many years, and has sponsored a number of Shell diversity and inclusion initiatives around the world.
Donny was born in Malaysia and is married with two daughters. In his diminishing spare time, he enjoys tennis, skiing and cooking.
