Independent media for the global private client world
Wealth Office is a long-form interview series with the founders, families and private capital holders reshaping the world. Filmed in London's great rooms. Published across Western and Chinese platforms.
The guest's chairEvery Wealth Office conversation is filmed on location in London. The chair is the only seat a guest is offered.
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Checked 12 Oct 2026. Updated every Monday.
What we are building
Wealth Office is building the independent media brand for the families and principals who hold private capital, and for the advisers, institutions and creators who serve them. Long-form conversations filmed in London's great rooms, published in six languages across Western and Chinese platforms, and organised into the ideas that shape how wealth is held, passed on and put to work.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record. New essays follow every new episode.
News
Briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and more. All news
Series architecture
Both series are filmed to the same production standard, in the same rooms, by the same team.
Editorial · Never sponsoredOne-on-one conversations exclusively with private capital-holding principals, authors and academics. The focus is their perspective, and how private capital is building the new world across business, technology, philanthropy and culture.
Exchange · Sometimes sponsoredTwo globally recognised leaders explore one subject where power, risk and long-term consequence intersect. Issue-led dialogue that stress-tests an idea or proposition.
Wealth Office X is where paid collaboration lives. It is always editorially led, never an advertisement in interview form.
The recurring questions
Ranked by how often each theme recurs across the episode library. Each theme has its own page that grows with every new episode.
In the chair
Every guest has a profile page drawing together their episodes, clips and the ideas they put on the record.
Behind the camera
The hosts, producers and strategists who make Wealth Office, in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Full biographies
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Hosts
Based in London, Michael is a close adviser to some of the world's most ambitious private capital holders, with particular depth across Asia's major business families and family offices. His work sits at the intersection of media, reputation and the relationships shaping this era of private wealth. He is Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, which produces Wealth Office.
About the seriesBased in Mumbai. Former South Asia Bureau Chief for the Daily Telegraph and host of The Diplomat's Beyond the Indus podcast, with over a decade advising UHNWIs and family offices across India and South Asia.
Based in Hong Kong. Moves between Western and Greater China circles in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with long-standing relationships across Asia's family office and private client world.
Published in long, mid and short form
One filmed session becomes a long-form episode, mid-length clips and short-form cuts in English and Mandarin.
Collaboration partners
Wealth Office X places a firm's expertise inside a trusted, independent private client channel, with long-form authority, multi-platform distribution and content built for how AI now recommends people and firms.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays on private capital, family wealth and the forces reshaping the private client world, drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record.
Episodes
Long-form episodes from both series, with an overview, key ideas and verified quotes for each.
Founder of the KT Wong Foundation, building cultural bridges between China and the world
Biography
Lady Linda Wong Davies is a cultural producer and philanthropist who founded the KT Wong Foundation, a London-based organisation that has built cultural links between China and the rest of the world since 2007.
Wong Davies was born in Singapore and raised in Malaysia, and completed her education in the United States, where she majored in economics. Her father, Dato Wong Kee Tat, was a Chinese Malaysian businessman and philanthropist who encouraged her interest in music and the arts. She established the KT Wong Foundation in his memory and serves as its founder and chairman. She has spoken of spending her early life looking to the West, and has had a home in Cape Town for more than two decades.
The foundation describes itself as a promoter of cultural collaboration between East and West and a pioneer in building cultural links with China. Its work runs in both directions, taking Western productions into China and bringing Chinese artists to European audiences, and in recent years it has extended its activity to Africa. It also identifies and develops emerging talent.
Among its early projects were a contemporary Chinese garden designed by the artist Shao Fan, which won a gold medal at the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and a composition by Chen Yi presented at the 2008 BBC Proms. The foundation also convened cultural summits in the United Kingdom and Beijing that brought together performing arts leaders from both countries.
Wong Davies works as a producer across opera, theatre and film. With the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie she co-produced Handel's Semele, designed and directed by the artist Zhang Huan, which premiered in Brussels in 2009 and later played in Beijing and Toronto. Wallpaper* described it as the first baroque opera staged in China. She has produced two BBC documentaries, one following Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on their first tour of China and one on the pianist Lang Lang. With Northern Ireland Opera she collaborated on Britten's Noye's Fludde for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
The foundation has also supported William Kentridge's production of Lulu at English National Opera in 2016, events at the Beijing Music Festival, a revival of The Suppliant Women with the Young Vic, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, and a soundscape by the South African composer Neo Muyanga for the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2019 she received the Hurun Report award for Outstanding Contribution to UK-China Cultural Relations. She has also written as a contributor to HuffPost UK.
Wong Davies appeared on Wealth Office in the episode "Is Culture China's Most Powerful Bridge to the World?". Speaking with Michael Macfarlane, she argued that it is too soon to speak of a Western cultural sunset, described her foundation's mission as a two-way highway for culture into and out of China, and dated the world's awakening to modern China to the Beijing Olympics. She explained her view that Chinese culture survives by absorbing and transforming outside influences, and illustrated it with projects including a Mandarin Coriolanus taken to the Edinburgh Festival, the National Theatre's Frankenstein reaching Chinese cinemas, Zhang Huan's Semele and a staging of Noye's Fludde with Chinese lanterns. The conversation closed on the role of patrons, whom she said need passion, conviction, speed and pragmatism about legacy, and on her belief that cultural platforms change minds more than statistics do.
Lady Linda Wong Davies explains how theatre, opera and music have carried ideas between China and the West, and why patrons who can move quickly matter.
News
Weekly briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital, drawn from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and other leading titles, with context for families and their advisers.
About
Wealth Office is an independent media platform built for the private client world, launched in September 2025 and produced in London.
What Wealth Office is
Wealth Office explores the structural forces reshaping the private client world: the rise of private capital, the globalisation of family wealth, the shift of ambition and innovation toward Asia, the psychology of intergenerational stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with significant capital.
The series speaks with the principals themselves: founders, inheritors and long-term holders of capital, together with the authors and academics who study them. It does not cover market commentary or portfolio management. It asks how private wealth is used, governed and passed on, and what it is building.
Wealth Office is hosted by Michael Macfarlane and produced by a dedicated team in London and Hong Kong. Full biographies follow below.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business-owning families, family offices, next-generation wealth holders, founders, and the lawyers, trustees and advisers who serve them.
Michael Macfarlane, Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, is the principal host. Joe Wallen in Mumbai and Stephanie Chen in Hong Kong join as hosts.
The Wealth Office series is never sponsored. Wealth Office X episodes may involve a paid collaboration partner and are always editorially led.
On YouTube at @wealthofficeofficial, with clips on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, RedNote and Bilibili (as 财富办公室), and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Hosts and team
A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Wealth Office XWhere paid collaboration lives. Always editorially led.
Collaboration partners
Firms that serve the private client world collaborate with Wealth Office to own a theme: credible, independent, long-form video in front of the audience that matters, in the format AI-driven search now rewards.
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