Regina Ip

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee
葉劉淑儀
Ip in 2023
Convenor of the Non-official Members of the Executive Council
Assumed office
1 July 2022
Appointed byJohn Lee
Preceded byBernard Charnwut Chan
Non-official Member of the Executive Council
Assumed office
1 July 2017
Appointed byCarrie Lam
John Lee
In office
17 October 2012 – 15 December 2016
Appointed byLeung Chun-ying
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 January 2022
Preceded byNew constituency
ConstituencyHong Kong Island West
In office
1 October 2008 – 31 December 2021
Preceded byAnson Chan
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
ConstituencyHong Kong Island
Chairwoman of the New People's Party
Assumed office
9 January 2011
Preceded byNew party
Secretary for Security
In office
31 August 1998 – 25 July 2003
Preceded byPeter Lai
Succeeded byAmbrose Lee
Director of Immigration
In office
1996 – 1998
Preceded byLaurence Leung
Succeeded byAmbrose Lee
Director of Industry Department
In office
1995 – 1996
Preceded byDenise Yue
Succeeded byFrancis Ho
Personal details
Born
Lau Suk-yee

(1950-08-24) 24 August 1950 (age 74)
Hong Kong
NationalityChinese
Political partyNew People's Party
Spouse
Sammy Ip Man-ho
(m. 1981⁠–⁠1997)
ChildrenCynthia Ip
Parent(s)Lau Fook-seng
Wa Choi-fung
Residence(s)Bowen Road, Hong Kong
EducationSt. Stephen's Girls' College
University of Hong Kong (BA)
University of Glasgow (MLitt)
Stanford University (MS, MA)
Signature
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Regina Ip
Traditional Chinese葉劉淑儀
Simplified Chinese叶刘淑仪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYé-Liú Shúyi
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingIp6-Lau4 Suk1yee4

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee GBM GBS JP (Chinese: 葉劉淑儀; née Lau; born 24 August 1950) is a politician in Hong Kong. She is currently the Convenor of the Executive Council (ExCo) and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), as well as the founder and current chairperson of the New People's Party. She was formerly a prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and was the first woman to be appointed the Secretary for Security to head the disciplinary service. She is also the founder and Chairwoman of Savantas Policy Institute, a think-tank in Hong Kong.

Ip became a controversial figure for her role advocating the passage of the national security legislation to implement Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, and after this legislation was withdrawn, she became the first principal official to resign from the administration of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. She took a sabbatical to study for a master's degree. She contested the 2007 Hong Kong Island by-election for the Legislative Council but was defeated by Anson Chan in the two-horse race. She ran again in the 2008 Legislative Council election and won, gaining a seat in the Hong Kong Island. She was re-elected in the 2012 and 2016 elections.

Ip is widely known to be keen on the Chief Executive top post. She ran in both 2012 and 2017 Chief Executive elections but did not secure a minimum number of 150 nominations from the 1,200-member Election Committee to enter the race on both occasions. In 2020, Larry Diamond, her supervisor at Stanford University, publicly criticized Ip's handling of the democracy movement and freedom of the press in Hong Kong.[1][2]

  1. ^ "戰狼葉劉有辱師門 | 顧書維". 眾新聞 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ Lau, Jessie. "Hong Kong's Public Broadcaster Under Siege". thediplomat.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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