Shane Weir, BA, LLB
Director

Mr. Weir has been a director of CIBT Education Group Inc. since 2008. Mr. Weir became a solicitor, barrister and notary public in Canada in 1978. He was admitted to the bars in England and Wales and in Hong Kong as a solicitor in 1992. He works as a solicitor at the law firm Weir & Associates in Hong Kong, a firm he organized in 1985. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Weir was director of L&D Property Limited, a real estate brokerage firm in Hong Kong. He has lectured in both Canada and Hong Kong at the university level. Mr. Weir is also a registered investment advisor and is a director of numerous companies including Asia Pacific Investment Advisors Ltd., an investment management firm in Hong Kong and e-Kong Group Limited, a company listed in Hong Kong.

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Weir is an active participant in the Hong Kong and China business communities. He is a member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, The Law Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Computer Society. He is also Hong Kong's national president of the World Jurist Association. Mr. Weir also sits on the Executive Committee of the Management and Technology Committee of The Law Society of Hong Kong, the Standard and Development Committee of The Law Society of Hong Kong, the IT Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the IT Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He has served as an appointee of the Law Society to the Provisional Board to consider the future of Hong Kong domain names registration (".hk"), and serves as the Chairman of the Lands Appeal Tribunal and Chairman of the Committee considering Multi-jurisdictional Partnerships. Mr. Weir received both his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. He acts as legal adviser to numerous corporations and associations in Hong Kong and abroad, both private and public and serves as trustee for several significant trusts and pension schemes with assets worldwide. Mr. Weir holds directorship in a number of publicly traded companies in Hong Kong, and is a principal of an investment advisory company in Hong Kong licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Mr. Weir received both his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Saskatchewan.