Florence Hui Hiu-fai, SBS (; 6 July 1974 – 3 December 2018) was one of the undersecretaries appointed by the

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. She served as the Undersecretary for Home Affairs from 2008 to 2017.

Education

Hui held a

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from the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

and an

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from

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. She undertook executive training programmes at Tsing Hua University and

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Career

Hui joined the

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in 2002 and was promoted in 2007 to Head of Business Planning and Development for Northeast Asia. She was the Secretary to the

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and served on the

Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC; zh, t=香港總商會) was founded on 29 May 1861, and is the oldest and one of the largest business organizations in Hong Kong. It has around 4,000 corporate members, who combined employ aroun ...

Financial Services Committee. She was a convenor of the Chamber’s China Committee. She was also a part-time member of the

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Undersecretary

In 2008 she was made an undersecretary for the

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under the

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. She left the office in 2017.

Later life and death

Hui was appointed to the board of Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited in March 2018. On 3 December 2018, Hui died of

breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ...

at the age of 44.

References

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