Pamela Chan Wong-shui,

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, JP is a consumer rights activist and academic in Hong Kong. Originally a

social worker Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...

, she was Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Consumer Council (HKCC) from 1985 to 2007. She served, concurrently, as an Executive Member and President (from 1997 to 2000) of the Consumers International. She is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Professional Legal Education and a member of the PCLL Academic Boards of both 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 ...

(UHK) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).Chinese University of Hong Kong webpage
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Education

Chan was graduated from

Chung Chi College The Chung Chi College is one of the constituent colleges of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and one of the three original colleges that joined to form the CUHK in 1963. Founded in 1951 by representatives of Protestant churches in ...

's Department of Social Work, part of CUHK. She later earned her law degree from then-

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1994.

Affiliations

She has served or currently serves on various Boards and Committees, including: board of directors of The Community Chest, the Advisory Committee on Travel Agents, Travel Industry Compensation Fund Management Board, Hong Kong Housing Authority, the Appeals Tribunal of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, the Working Party on Civil Justice Reform of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Steering Committee on the Review of Legal Education and Training in Hong Kong and the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Awards

In 1979, she received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award. She was awarded the

Bronze Bauhinia Star The Bronze Bauhinia Star (, BBS) is the lowest rank in Order of the Bauhinia Star in Hong Kong, created in 1997 to replace the British honours system of the Order of the British Empire after the transfer of sovereignty to People's Republic of Ch ...

by the Government of the

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in 1998 and a Gold Award by the China Consumer Association two years later in recognition of her contributions to consumer rights protections. In 2006, Chan was awarded the Rhoda Karpatkin Award from the American Council on Consumer Interests for her work and leadership in contributing to Hong Kong consumers' welfare and China's consumer movement.Sylvia Chan
Chan profile in ''The Standard''
, 28 December 2006.

Education

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