Maria Tam | |
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譚惠珠 | |
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| Convenor of National People's Congress Hong Kong delegation | |
| In office March 2013 – 3 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Yuen Mo |
| Succeeded by | Ma Fung-kwok |
| Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | |
| In office 1 September 1983 – 31 October 1991 | |
| Appointed by | Sir Edward Youde Sir David Wilson |
| Preceded by | Henry Fang |
| Succeeded by | Selina Chow |
| Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| In office 1 September 1981 – 22 August 1991 | |
| Appointed by | Sir Murray MacLehose Sir Edward Youde Sir David Wilson |
| In office 21 December 1996 – 27 June 1997 (Provisional Legislative Council) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tam Wai-chu 2 November 1945 Hong Kong |
| Political party | Progressive Hong Kong Society (1985–90) Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (1990–97) Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (1997–2005) Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (2005–15) |
| Education | St. Paul's Co-educational College |
| Alma mater | University of London (LLB) Gray's Inn |
| Occupation | Barrister |
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| Traditional Chinese | 譚惠珠 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 谭惠珠 | ||||||||||||
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Maria Tam Wai-chu GBM GBS CBE JP (Chinese: 譚惠珠; born 2 November 1945) is a senior Hong Kong politician and lawyer. She is a member of the Committee for the Basic Law of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) since 1997 and the chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) since 2015.
As a successful politician early on, Tam was a member of the four different levels of representative councils, Executive Council, Legislative Council, Urban Council and Central and Western District Board in colonial Hong Kong in the 1980s. She was also a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee and took up various appointments from the Beijing government after she departed from the colonial government over the conflict of interest scandal in 1991.
Since 1997, she has become one of the most recognisable spokespersons and "most loyal mouthpieces" for the Beijing authorities on constitutional matters such as the interpretations of the Basic Law and constitutional reforms, in which she has always firmly stood and defended all of Beijing's decisions.