Oei Hong Leong is a son of Indonesian Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who died in 2019.[2] He was educated in China, having moved there as a teenager, and lived there in the 1960s and 1970s.[3]
According to Forbes, "the bulk of his wealth is derived from a corporate bond portfolio and real estate assets".[2]
Oei owns "prime property" in Vancouver, Canada, including the waterfront Plaza of Nations site, that he bought from Li Ka-shing in 1989 for CAN$40 million.[2][3] The site has been renamed Expo Gardens and there are plans to build 1.4 million sq ft of residential property and 700,000 sq ft of commercial and retail property.[3]
In 2017, he founded One Belt One Net, a data centre company in Singapore, with a SIN$6.7 billion investment.[4]
Oei is the chairman of Chip Lian Investments, the Oei Hong Leong Foundation, and the Nei Xue Tang Museum.[4]
Oei is married, with four children, and lives in Singapore.[2] He collects Buddhist art, and owns the private Nei Xue Tang Museum in Singapore, which has more than 50,000 pieces.[2][4][5]
