Stanley Ng Wing-fai (; born 1961) is a Hong Kong based

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expert, a licensed town planner and politician. He is

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Member of Hong Kong (2006 to 2022) and Executive Committee member of the Democratic Party.

Education and business career

Born in 1961 in Hong Kong, Ng studied at the Pui Ching Middle School, and received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the

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in 1983 and a master's degree in Urban Planning from the

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in 1991. He became a licensed Town Planner both in China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He is the founder and CEO of "MapAsia" and "MapKing", and running MapKing International, an international smart city technology and mapping firm in Asia. He is also the Publisher of the World and China Press Limited. and also Founding President of Asia Pacific Connected Vehicles Industry Association.

Political career

He first ran for office in the Yau Tsim Mong District Board in the 1994 District Board elections where he won a seat in Mong Kok North for the Democratic Party. In the 1999 election, he changed his constituency to Tai Nan but was defeated. He was also among the last members of the

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elected in the 1995 election through Mong Kok. He continued to serve on the Provisional Urban Council after the handover in 1997 until the council was abolished by the then

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in 2000. In 2004, 2008 and 2012, he contested in the Architectural, Surveying and Planning

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which has restricted electorates and was all unelected. He gave way to other democrats

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and Paul Zimmerman in subsequent elections in 2016 and 2018.

won but disqualified (DQ) by the authority and Paul Zimmerman lost in by-election. He was elected in 2006, 2011, 2016 to the

which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive, through the Architectural, Surveying and Planning sub-sector. He run under Democrat Professionals Hong Kong in 2016 and won. He has been member of the Central Committee and Executive Committee of the Democratic Party, a pro-democratic party in Hong Kong. He had also served as Treasurer of the party. In the 2014 party leadership election, he ran against incumbent chairwoman

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but was not elected. He was Vice Chairman of the pro-democracy think tank

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until he became the Chairman in November 2015 but he only stayed in office for one year. The successor Paul Zimmerman run by-election of the professional sector after

was disqualified (DQ) in 2017 but was defeated. He was a member of Hong Kong's think tank Citizen's Commission on Constitutional Development which was formed by

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in 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ng, Stanley 1961 births Living people District councillors of Yau Tsim Mong District Members of the Urban Council of Hong Kong National Taiwan University alumni Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021