Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan (born 8 May 1953) is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

former civil servant. She was appointed Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development in July 2008 after her predecessor

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resigned due to health reasons. Coincidentally, ill-health also forced her resignation from this position on 8 April 2011, following an operation to remove a colon tumour.

Civil Service

Mrs Lau joined as Hong Kong Civil Service in 1976. She has served in various bureaux and departments in the government. She was Deputy Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting (1998), Director of Urban Services (1999), Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (2000), Permanent Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works (

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and Transport) (July 2002–January 2004) and Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (

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and Lands) (May 2004–July 2007), and Permanent Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (Communications and Technology) (July 2007–July 2008). She trained at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

in Beijing between January and April, 2004. She has been Chairman of the Public Service Commission since May 2014.

References

*Precedence information sourced from the Government's May 2017 HKSAR Precedence List.

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Mrs Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan, JP, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
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