The 24 Hour Race is proudly run by student volunteers. Behind the scenes, a Board and Headquarters team are there to support their work, as well as oversea our event growth.

Christopher Schrader - Founder

Christopher Schrader is founder of the 24 Hour Race and CEO and cofounder of GraphEQ.com. Chris started the 24 Hour Race at age 16, inspired to give students around the world the opportunity to fight slavery through endurance sport. Today, the 24 Hour Race is the world's largest student movement fighting slavery.

He studied at Harvard, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and currently sits on the Board of the 24 Hour Race.

Jeffrey Chau - Managing Director

Jeffrey Chau is the managing director of the Headquarters team at 24 Hour Race. Jeffrey joined the organization for the Peak24 event in early 2017 as business development manager. Determined to help the next generation of leaders and grow the organisation, he remained on board to assist the new student directors of the 24 Hour Race.

He is currently studying at the University of Hong Kong as a third-year student.

Headquarters Team

Our Headquarters is completely run by HKU volunteers from David Bishop's joint MBA-LLB program. For a full list of our current staff, please visit:

Team Members - Gallery View

Student Directors (2017)

For a full list of our 15 Student Directors, please visit this link:

Directors - 2017 Directors