Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee | |
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葉劉淑儀 | |
Convenor of the Non-official Members of the Executive Council | |
Assumed office 1 July 2022 | |
Appointed by | John Lee |
Preceded by | Bernard Charnwut Chan |
Non-official Member of the Executive Council | |
Assumed office 1 July 2017 | |
Appointed by | Carrie Lam John Lee |
In office 17 October 2012 – 15 December 2016 | |
Appointed by | Leung Chun-ying |
Member of the Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 1 January 2022 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Constituency | Hong Kong Island West |
In office 1 October 2008 – 31 December 2021 | |
Preceded by | Anson Chan |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Hong Kong Island |
Chairwoman of the New People's Party | |
Assumed office 9 January 2011 | |
Preceded by | New party |
Secretary for Security | |
In office 31 August 1998 – 25 July 2003 | |
Preceded by | Peter Lai |
Succeeded by | Ambrose Lee |
Director of Immigration | |
In office 1996 – 1998 | |
Preceded by | Laurence Leung |
Succeeded by | Ambrose Lee |
Director of Industry Department | |
In office 1995 – 1996 | |
Preceded by | Denise Yue |
Succeeded by | Francis Ho |
Personal details | |
Born | Lau Suk-yee 24 August 1950 Hong Kong |
Nationality | Chinese |
Political party | New People's Party |
Spouse |
Sammy Ip Man-ho
(m. 1981–1997) |
Children | Cynthia Ip |
Parent(s) | Lau Fook-seng Wa Choi-fung |
Residence(s) | Bowen Road, Hong Kong |
Education | St. Stephen's Girls' College University of Hong Kong (BA) University of Glasgow (MLitt) Stanford University (MS, MA) |
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Regina Ip | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 葉劉淑儀 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 叶刘淑仪 | ||||||||||
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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]