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Elizabeth Quat Pei-fan, BBS, JP (, born 23 December 1966) is a Hong Kong politician associated with the pro-Beijing
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. She is a co-founder of the Internet Professional Association (iProA), a director of the World Summit Award and chief executive officer of CB Strategic Investment. All three of her "degrees" were awarded by defunct
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Greenwich University, Hawaii. Quat was elected in 2012 to represent
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in the
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. She was re-elected in 2021 to represent
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. She has also served as an elected member of the Sha Tin District Council from 2008 to 2015.


Background

Quat received her
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,
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, and Doctor of Philosophy in Management from Greenwich University, Hawaii (which has never been recognized by an accrediting body of the federal Department of Education in the United States and later relocated to Norfolk Island). In 2008, she was certified as a scuba diving instructor and is supporting photographer in a research group within the Ocean Geographic Society. In 2000, Quat founded the Internet Professional Association and was president of the group until 2006. She became the director of World Summit Award in 2003. Quat founded the company CB Strategic Investment in 2004 and has been the CEO since then. In 2005, she help founded eHealth Consortium. She was appointed as director for Hong Kong Education City in 2006. In 2007, she found and became the president for the Energy Saving & Environment Concern Alliance. Quat also founded Green ICT Consortium in 2009 and is the chairman of the organisation.


Career in the Legislative Council

In November 2020, Quat said that a face mask manufacturer was challenging the Hong Kong national security law by producing yellow-coloured masks. In December 2020, Quat asked the government to consider a "lockdown order" for foreign domestic helpers on their day off, claiming that social distancing violations were "getting out of control" by them. In response, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, dismissed Quat's idea and said that her suggestion would be inappropriate and discriminatory. In January 2021, the Hong Kong judiciary dismissed Quat's idea, in which she suggested that a council should be used to determine criminal sentencing due to a perceived lack of consistency in penalties. The judiciary responded that current appeals and reviews were effective. In February 2021, it was reported that Quat again criticized the judiciary, claiming that the
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was not making progress in prosecuting those arrested under the National Security Law. In February 2021, Quat said that
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produced "fake news" that discredited mainland China's government, and that BBC deserved to have their programming dropped by RTHK. Later, Quat said that RTHK had issues and was "left unsupervised" under its former Director of Broadcasting, Leung Ka-wing. In contrast, the RTHK's Programme Staff Union stated that they had serious doubts about the new director, Patrick Li, and that the government had made moves to strip editorial independence from RTHK. In April 2021, Quat stated that the COVID-19 situation in India was out of control, and that flights from there to Hong Kong should be restricted, despite a mandatory 21-day hotel quarantine for inbound passengers. In December 2021, it was reported that Quat was eligible to vote four times in the
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, yielding 0.0475578% of the total voting value (elected seats), which is 9569 times more than the value of an average voter's total voting value. On 5 January 2022,
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announced new warnings and restrictions against social gathering due to potential
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outbreaks. One day later, it was discovered that Quat attended a birthday party hosted by Witman Hung Wai-man, with 222 guests. At least one guest tested positive with COVID-19, causing all guests to be quarantined. In July 2022, Quat proposed legislation to prohibit insulting people, stating "There are views pointing out that a number of incidents involving insulting other persons have happened in Hong Kong in recent years. Such acts not only trample on other persons' dignity and damage their reputation, but also encourage the trend of bullying in the community. Moreover, it is learnt that quite a number of public officers, while discharging duties, have experienced they themselves and their family members being insulted." In February 2023, when talking about foreign domestic helpers, Quat said she heard complaints and that "If it's not about job-hopping, it's that they don’t match their product descriptions. Let’s not say 'product,' but they come to Hong Kong and they don't know how to do any of the things they said they could do. Domestic workers' contracts, and domestic worker policies, only help the domestic worker. They don’t help the employers." In July 2023, after the government lost at an attempt to ban the song Glory to Hong Kong, Quat said that the government should keep trying to ban the song.


Honours

Quat received Ten Outstanding Young Persons and Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons awards in 2001, and named The Most Successful Women 2002. She was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.


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External links


Elizabeth Quat LinkedIn profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quat, Elizabeth Living people District councillors of Sha Tin District Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong politicians HK LegCo Members 2012–2016 HK LegCo Members 2016–2021 HK LegCo Members 2022–2025 1966 births Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026 Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians Hong Kong justices of the peace Recipients of the Bronze Bauhinia Star 21st-century Hong Kong women politicians