Anna Wu Hung-yuk (
Traditional Chinese
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: 胡紅玉; born 1951, Hong Kong),
GBS,
JP is a former non-official member of the
Executive Council of Hong Kong
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. She qualified as a solicitor after graduating from the
Faculty of Law
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of the
University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...
. She is currently a management consultant.
[ExCo membership announced]
Hong Kong Information Services Dept
Formerly, she served as Chairperson of the
Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority
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and Council Member of the
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
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...
.
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On 26 April 2013, she was appointed Chairperson of the Competition Commission, a position she continues to hold today.
Politically, she is considered on good terms with the pan-democratic camp. She has urged democratic parties to "roll up their sleeves" and set up a shadow cabinet that offers alternative policy programmes, in preparation for a time when they might hold political office.][ xco_member_[Anna_Wuurges_shadow_cabinet.html" ;"title="nna_Wu.html" ;"title="xco member [Anna Wu">xco member [Anna Wuurges shadow cabinet">nna_Wu.html" ;"title="xco member [Anna Wu">xco member [Anna Wuurges shadow cabinet ''South China Morning Post'', Gary Cheung, 26 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012]
Public service
In 1975, Wu was a founding member of the Hong Kong Observers, a group of liberal-minded intellectuals and professionals.[
From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Legislative Council, but left disappointed having failed to put through three equal opportunities bills, citing government and bureaucratic intransigence towards greater public accountability.
She was Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, set up in 1996.
From October 1997 to July 1999, she was chairperson of the ]Hong Kong Consumer Council
The Consumer Council is an independent statutory authority in Hong Kong, established in 1974 and formalised in April 1977 under the Consumer Council Ordinance (Cap. 216). Its role is to enhance consumer welfare and empower consumers to prote ...
(HKCC). She became a member of HKCC in 1989 and was its vice-chairman from 1993. At that time, she headed its Legal Protection Committee (1992–97) and Consumer Legal Action Fund Management Committee. She was also vice-chairman of the Competition Policy Committee. Later, as chairperson, Wu was instrumental in the establishment of the Consumer Legal Action Fund
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(CLAF) in 1994. She then chaired the Management Committee of CLAF from December 1994 to January 1998, and chaired the Board of Administrators from January 1998.
Wu was chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
In January 2009, Wu joined the Executive Council (Exco) under Chief Executive
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Donald Tsang
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Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupyi ...
. When CY Leung
Leung Chun-ying (; born 12 August 1954), also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor, who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since Ma ...
became Chief Executive on 1 July 2012, Wu was one of only four members retained in the new Exco.[ Shortly afterwards she took the chair of the new Committee on the Implementation of Moral & National Education, set up to allay public concern over the government's controversial Moral & National Education Curriculum, which encourages loyalty to the 'motherland', China, and which is widely seen as tilted towards the Communist Party's version of history and loyalty. Wu resigned from the Executive Council in 2017.]
Wu has also been a member of the Law Reform Commission
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and the Hospital Authority
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. She was a director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Hong may refer to:
Places
*Høng, a town in Denmark
*Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China
*Hong, Nigeria
*Hong River in China and Vietnam
*Lake Hong in China
Surnames
*Hong (Chinese name)
*Hong (Korean name)
Organiz ...
and a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission
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References
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1951 births
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Living people
Recipients of the Silver Bauhinia Star
Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star
Solicitors of Hong Kong
Women members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
HK LegCo Members 1991–1995
Hong Kong women lawyers
20th-century Hong Kong women politicians