Starry Lee

The Honourable
Starry Lee Wai-king
JP
李慧琼
Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Assumed office
17 April 2015
Preceded by Tam Yiu-chung
Non-official Member of the Executive Council
Assumed office
1 July 2012
Appointed by Leung Chun-ying
Preceded by Lau Kong-wah
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 October 2012
Preceded by New constituency
Constituency District Council (Second)
In office
1 October 2008 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by Tsang Yok-sing
Succeeded by Ann Chiang
Constituency Kowloon West
Personal details
Born (1974-03-13) 13 March 1974
Hong Kong
Political party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Alma mater University of Science and Technology (BBA)
University of Manchester (MBA)
Occupation Accountant

Starry Lee Wai-king, JP (Chinese: 李慧琼; pinyin: Lǐ Huìqióng, born 13 March 1974 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong politician. Currently holding the positions of Executive Councillor, Legislative Councillor, and Kowloon City District Councillor, she is also the chairwoman of the largest Beijing-loyalist party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).

Biography

Born in 1974 in Hong Kong into a working-class family and brought up on a public housing estate,[1] Lee obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Business Administration from the University of Manchester. She became a professional accountant, working for the KPMG in Hong Kong and is currently the principal at the CCIF CPA Ltd.

Lee first stood for the District Council elections in 1999 for the Kowloon City District Council, the neighbourhood where she lived. She was elected when she was 26, the youngest district councillor at that time.[2] She joined the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong when she was approached by the former party chairman Tsang Yok-sing around 2004. She was asked to become the part of Tsang's team in the following Legislative Council election in September 2004.[3] She was listed third on the candidate list and helped Tsang to win a seat in the Kowloon West.

With her professional background, Lee became a new star in the party and also the pro-Beijing camp. She was elected to the Legislative Council when Tsang left the constituency for Hong Kong Island in the 2008 Legislative Council election. In 2011, she was elected as the vice-chairwoman of the party.

In 2012, she was appointed to the Executive Council by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.

In the 2012 Legislative Council election, Lee contested in the newly created territory-wide District Council (Second) constituency. Her list received over 270,000 votes in total.

On 17 April 2015, she was elected as the first woman to chair the DAB, succeeding Tam Yiu-chung.[4]

Controversies

In 2010 DAB legislator Starry Lee refused to sign a petition to help ban import of highly endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna to Hong Kong, saying that her daughter loves sashimi and she does not want her daughter to get mad at her.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chan, Bernard (30 April 2015). "Breaking the mould in Hong Kong politics". South China Morning Post.
  2. ↑ Jasper Tsang – Laws of attraction
  3. ↑ Chan, Quinton (21 August 2006). "Life in the patriotic camp". South China Morning Post.
  4. ↑ "民 建 聯 領 導 層 改 選 　 李 慧 琼 當 選 主 席". RTHK. 17 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "A beastly feast". HK Magazine, 2010

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by
Jasper Tsang		 Member of Legislative Council
Representative for Kowloon West
2008–2012 		Succeeded by
Ann Chiang
New constituency Member of Legislative Council
Representative for District Council (Second)
2012–present 		Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Tam Yiu-chung		 Chairman of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
2015–present 		Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Bernard Chan
Non-official member of the Executive Council		 Hong Kong order of precedence
Non-official member of the Executive Council 		Succeeded by
Paul Chan
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