Hong Kong activist investor David Webb dies of cancer, social media posts show


FILE PHOTO: Shareholder activist David Webb (L) leaves the High Court after an appeal by PCCW against a ruling in Hong Kong on April 16, 2009. David Webb, a Hong Kong activist investor who campaigned for market transparency and democratic accountability, died on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026, aged 60, according to a statement posted on his social media. - AFP

HONG KONG: Hong Kong activist investor and prominent commentator David Webb has died of metastatic prostate cancer, according to his social media accounts.

Webb, a British-born former investment banker, began publishing columns on economic and corporate governance, finance, regulatory and political issues in Hong Kong on his website in 1998, becoming one of the territory's ‌most closely followed analysts.

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