Lau Kong-wah

Ray Lau Kong-wah, JP (born 22 June 1957, Hong Kong), also called Ray Lau, 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.

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
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.
Lau Kong-wah
Traditional Chinese劉江華
Simplified Chinese刘江华

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.

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