CBRE’s deputy chief ethics and compliance officer and former legal head for Asia, Sophia PK Yap, talks to Elizabeth Broomhall about juggling global regulators, family life and knee injuries
Sophia Pei-Kwun ‘PK’ Yap hobbles into her interview with Legal Week on crutches, nursing the leg injury she sustained in a Law Society relay race. Despite the discomfort – the torn ACL and meniscus recently required surgery – the deputy compliance chief for real estate giant CBRE is in a remarkably enthusiastic mood. “To me work is fun, it’s not a chore,” she exclaims from a meeting room in her company’s Asian headquarters in Exchange Square. “I enjoy my career. Life is short; you have to enjoy what you’re doing.”
