Elizabeth Quat Pei-fan,
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,
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
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and chief executive officer of CB Strategic Investment. All three of her "degrees" were awarded by defunct
diploma mill
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Greenwich University, Hawaii.
Quat was
elected in 2012 to represent
New Territories East in the
Hong Kong Legislative Council
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under People's Republic of China, China's "one country, two systems" constitutional arrange ...
. She was
re-elected in 2021 to represent
Election Committee
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. She has also served as an elected member of the
Sha Tin District Council
The Sha Tin District Council is the district council for the Sha Tin District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sha Tin District Council currently consists of 42 members, of which the district is divided into 41 constituencies, ...
from 2008 to 2015.
Background
Quat received her
Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...
,
Master of Business Administration
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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
The World Summit Awards (WSA) is an awards system that selects and promotes local digital innovation to improve society. WSA is an international platform focused on broadcasting cutting-edge examples of how Information and Communications Technol ...
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
The Hong Kong national security law, officially the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a piece of national security legislation concerning Hong Kong. It ...
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
Dr Law Chi-kwong, GBS, JP (; born 1 November 1953) is a Hong Kong politician who served as Secretary for Labour and Welfare between 2017 and 2022. He is an associate professor in social work at the University of Hong Kong.
He was a founding ...
, 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
Department of Justice
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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 had a "privileged" vote in the
, where the vote would count approximately 7,215 times more than an ordinary citizen.
On 5 January 2022,
announced new warnings and restrictions against social gathering due to potential
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
, 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."
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.