Warner Cheuk Wing Hing ( zh, 卓永興, born March 24, 1959) 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 ...

administrative officer, former

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, currently deputy chief secretary for administration, and former permanent secretary of the Innovation and Technology Bureau. After his

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career, he briefly served as director of the Dialogue Office of the Policy Innovation and Coordination Office. Served as a consultant to the

financial secretary Financial secretary is an administrative and executive government position within the governance of a state, corporation, private or public organization, small group or other body with financial assets. A financial secretary oversees policy con ...

's private office. In July 2022, he was appointed as the deputy secretary for administration of the Hong Kong Government.

Career

Cheuk graduated from the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and joined the

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as a police inspector in June of the same year. In August 1984, he was transferred to the administrative grade, and in April 2007, he was promoted to the Directorate Class B administrative officer (D4), and in April 2017, he was promoted to the Director Class A first class administrative officer (D8). He has served in various bureaux and departments, including the former two bureaux and Administration Branch, the former Administration and Information Branch, the former City and New Territories Administration, the

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, the former Finance Branch, the former Financial Services Branch, the

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, the former

Civil Service Bureau The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is a policy bureau under the Government Secretariat of the Government of Hong Kong and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies on the management of the Hong Kong Civil Service. The Civi ...

, the former Industry Department,

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Food and Environmental Hygiene Department The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) is a department of the Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Environment and Ecology Bureau. It is responsible for food hygiene and environmental hygiene. It replaced part of the role of ...

, General Grades Division, former

Health, Welfare and Food Bureau The Food and Health Bureau (FHB) was a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2022 that managed food hygiene, environmental hygiene and health policies in Hong Kong. It was led by the Secretary for Food and Health (SFH) du ...

and Labor Department. Important positions held by Cheuk include: * 2001: assistant director of

(Headquarters) * June 2001 to December 2003: deputy director (environmental hygiene),

* December 2003 to June 2006: director of general grades,

* August 2006 to December 2007: deputy secretary for

(food and environmental hygiene) (hereinafter referred to as deputy secretary for food and health (food)) * December 2007 to November 2010: director of

* November 2010 to February 18, 2014: commissioner for labor * From February 19, 2014, to the end of March 2014: chairman of Administrative Officer Recruitment Committee 2014 * May 2, 2014 to November 2015: administrative commissioner,

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* November 20, 2015 to April 12, 2019: permanent secretary for Innovation and Technology Bureau * September 16, 2019 to March 15, 2020: director of Dialogue Office,

Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide Decision-making, decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body ...

* From July 1, 2022: deputy chief secretary for administration. According to the nomination of John Lee, the sixth chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, on June 19, 2022, the State Council appointed Cheuk as the deputy chief secretary for administration of the Hong Kong Government.

Deputy chief secretary for administration

In December 2022, Cheuk said that Hong Kong will stop buying advertising space from Google if

Glory to Hong Kong "Glory to Hong Kong" ( zh, t=願榮光歸香港, cy=Yuhn Wìhnggwōng Gwāi Hēunggóng, j=jyun6 wing4 gwong1 gwai1 hoeng1 gong2) is a protest anthem that was composed and written by a musician under the pseudonym "Thomas dgx yhl", with the ...

remained as one of the top search results for the national anthem of Hong Kong. In January 2024, Cheuk said that Hong Kong would install 2,000 more CCTV cameras in the city, and that it was only a "relatively small" amount of cameras.

Personal life

In August 2022, Cheuk tested positive for COVID-19. In September 2022, he tested positive again.

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{{Reflist 1959 births Living people Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star Hong Kong justices of the peace Government officials of Hong Kong Alumni of the University of Hong Kong