Lau Kong-wah

Ray Lau Kong-wah
劉江華
Secretary for Home Affairs
In office
21 July 2015 – 22 April 2020
Chief ExecutiveLeung Chun-ying
Carrie Lam
Preceded byTsang Tak-sing
Succeeded byCaspar Tsui
Under Secretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs
In office
21 December 2012 – 21 July 2015
SecretaryRaymond Tam
Preceded byAdeline Wong
Succeeded byRonald Chan
Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
In office
14 October 2008 – 30 June 2012
Appointed byDonald Tsang
Preceded byJasper Tsang
Succeeded byStarry Lee
Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1 July 1998 – 30 September 2012
Preceded byNew parliament
Succeeded byElizabeth Quat
ConstituencyNew Territories East
In office
21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998
(Provisional Legislative Council)
Personal details
Born (1957-06-22) 22 June 1957 (age 67)
British Hong Kong
Political partyUnited Democrats (1991–93)
Civil Force (1993–present)
DAB (1998–present)
SpouseMuk Fei-man
Alma materSt. Paul College
Sir Robert Black College of Education
University of Exeter
City Polytechnic of Hong Kong.
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Lau Kong-wah
Traditional Chinese劉江華
Simplified Chinese刘江华
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Jiānghuá
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationLàuh Gōng-wàh
JyutpingLau4 Gong1-waa4

Ray Lau Kong-wah, JP (born 22 June 1957, Hong Kong), also called Ray Lau,[1][2] is a former Hong Kong Government official and former member of both the Legislative Council and the Executive Council. Until 2020, he was Secretary for Home Affairs.

Lau was vice-chairman of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), after founding the similarly aligned Civil Force in 1993. Before that, he was a member of a pro-democracy party, United Democrats of Hong Kong, one of the predecessors of the Democratic Party.

  1. ^ Beatty, Bob (2003). "The Game's Afoot: Democratic Openings in Hong Kong with Lasting Effect". Democracy, Asian Values, and Hong Kong: Evaluating Political Elite Beliefs. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 36. ISBN 9780275976880. Retrieved 8 December 2016 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Pro-China challenge to most popular legislator | South China Morning Post". 25 August 1995.