Ho Iat-seng (; born 12 June 1957) is a Macanese politician serving as the 3rd and current

Chief Executive of Macau The Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (; pt, Chefe do Executivo da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau) is the head of government of Macau, a special administrative region of China. The position replaced the o ...

since December 2019.

Early life

Ho studied at , Macau. In 1992, he studied electronic engineering and economics at

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the na ...

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; he would later become a visiting fellow of the university.

Political career

Ho served as a member of the

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of Zhejiang Province from 1978 to 1998. In 2000, he was selected as the

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2, ...

member representing Macau and became a member of the Standing Committee in 2001. From 2004 to 2009, he served as a member of the

Executive Council of Macau The Executive Council (; pt, Conselho Executivo) is a formal body of advisers to the Chief Executive of Macau that serves as a core policy-making organ of the Government of Macau.Article 50, Macau Basic Law Composition The members of Executive ...

. In 2009, he was elected as a member of the

Legislative Assembly of Macau The Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special Administrative Region (; ) is the organ of the legislative branch of Macau. It is a 33-member body comprising 14 directly elected members, 12 indirectly elected members representing functional con ...

; from 2013 to 2019, he served as its vice-president and between 2014 and 2017 its president. On 18 April 2019, Ho announced his intention to run for election in August as Macau’s chief executive. Ho was elected as Chief Executive of Macau on 25 August 2019, and was subsequently appointed by

Li Keqiang Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...

, Premier of China. He was officially sworn-in as the 3rd Chief Executive of Macau on 20 December, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

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to China.

Election results

Legislative Assembly

Chief Executive

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