Katherine Ng Kit Shuen (伍潔鏇), born in 1974, was the
Political Assistant
The Political Appointments System is a scheme introduced in 2008 by the Hong Kong Government to reinforce its ministerial team by superseding the Principal Officials Accountability System and inserting two layers of politically appointed offic ...
to the Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury of Hong Kong.
Personal history
She was born in
Singapore and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 3. She holds a
Bachelor of Arts in Law from the
University of Cambridge, a
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the
College of Law
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Law degrees Argentina
In Argentina, ...
in London, and a
Master of Arts Degree in Law from the
University of Cambridge. She qualified as a
solicitor
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in the UK and Hong Kong in 1998 and 1999 respectively.
She worked for
Merrill Lynch
Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment bank ...
in Hong Kong from 2005 as the Director of its legal department. She has served at
Linklaters' offices in London and Hong Kong, and was a Compliance Officer in
Donald Tsang's election campaign for the
Chief Executive of HKSAR.
Political assistant
She was appointed as a political assistant on 22 May 2008 by
Donald Tsang. She is appointed under the expanded political appointment system on non-civil service terms for the term ending 30 June 2012.
As a political assistant, she receives HK$163,960 per month, 55% of a bureau director's
salary.
Ng holds a
Singaporean passport
A Singaporean passport is a travel document and passport issued to citizens and nationals of the Republic of Singapore. It enables the bearer to exit and re-enter Singapore freely; travel to and from other countries in accordance with visa requ ...
and not a Hong Kong SAR passport. She said she will not renounce it.
The Standard - Hong Kong's First FREE English Newspaper
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References
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Living people
1974 births
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Government officials of Hong Kong
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge