Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan (born 8 May 1953) is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

former civil servant. She was appointed

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development heads the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Government. The Secretary is responsible for promoting commerce and the economic development of Hong Kong. The position was c ...

in July 2008 after her predecessor

Frederick Ma Frederick Ma Si-hang is a Hong Kong politician and administrator who was chairman of the MTR Corporation from 2015 to 2019. As a former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Special Administrative Region of the People's Rep ...

resigned for health reasons. Coincidentally, ill-health also forced her resignation from this position on 8 April 2011, following an operation to remove a colon tumour.

Civil Service

Mrs Lau joined as Hong Kong Civil Service in 1976. She has served in various bureaux and

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in the government. She was Deputy Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting (1998), Director of Urban Services (1999), Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (2000), Permanent Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works ( Environment and Transport) (July 2002–January 2004) and Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (

Planning Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. Some researchers regard the evolution of forethought - the cap ...

and Lands) (May 2004–July 2007), and Permanent Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (Communications and Technology) (July 2007–July 2008). She trained at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in Beijing between January and April, 2004. She has been Chairman of the

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since May 2014.

References

*Precedence information sourced from the Government's May 2017 HKSAR Precedence List.

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Mrs Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan, JP, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
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