Elizabeth Quat

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The Honourable
Elizabeth Quat
BBS, JP
葛珮帆
Elizabeth Quat cut.jpg
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 October 2012
Preceded byLau Kong-wah
ConstituencyNew Territories East
Personal details
Born (1966-12-23) 23 December 1966 (age 55)
Hong Kong
Political partyDAB
Alma materGreenwich University, Hawaii
Signature
Elizabeth Quat
Traditional Chinese葛珮帆
Simplified Chinese葛佩帆

Elizabeth Quat, BBS, JP (Chinese: 葛珮帆, born 23 December 1966[1]) is a Hong Kong politician associated with the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. She is a co-founder of the scandal-rocked Internet Professional Association (iProA), a director of the World Summit Award and chief executive officer of CB Strategic Investment. All three of her "degrees" were awarded by defunct diploma mill Greenwich University, Hawaii.[2]

Quat was elected in 2012 to represent New Territories East in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. She has also served as an elected member of the Sha Tin District Council from 2008 to 2015.

Background[]

Quat received her Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy in Management from Greenwich University, Hawaii (which has never been recognized by an accrediting body of the federal Department of Education in the United States and later relocated to Norfolk Island).[3] In 2008, she was certified as a scuba diving instructor and is supporting photographer in a research group within the Ocean Geographic Society.[4][5]

In 2000, Quat founded the Internet Professional Association and was president of the group until 2006. She became the director of World Summit Award in 2003. Quat founded the company CB Strategic Investment in 2004 and has been the CEO since then. In 2005, she help founded eHealth Consortium. She was appointed as director for Hong Kong Education City in 2006. In 2007, she found and became the president for the Energy Saving & Environment Concern Alliance. Quat also founded Green ICT Consortium in 2009 and is the chairman of the organisation. She is currently a master student at the University of Hong Kong for marriage and family therapy.[6]

In November 2020, Quat claimed that a face mask manufacturer was challenging the Hong Kong national security law by producing yellow-coloured masks.[7]

In December 2020, Quat asked the government to consider a "lockdown order" for foreign domestic helpers on their day off, claiming that social distancing violations were "getting out of control" by them.[8] In response, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, dismissed Quat's idea and said that her suggestion would be inappropriate and discriminatory.[9]

In January 2021, the Hong Kong judiciary dismissed Quat's idea, in which she suggested that a council should be used to determine criminal sentencing due to a perceived lack of consistency in penalties.[10] The judiciary responded that current appeals and reviews were effective.[10] In February 2021, it was reported that Quat again criticized the judiciary, claiming that the Department of Justice was not making progress in prosecuting those arrested under the National Security Law.[11]

In February 2021, Quat claimed that BBC produced "fake news" that discredited mainland China's government, and that BBC deserved to have their programming dropped by RTHK.[12] Later, Quat claimed that RTHK had issues and was "left unsupervised" under its former Director of Broadcasting, Leung Ka-wing.[13] In contrast, the RTHK's Programme Staff Union stated that they had serious doubts about the new director, Patrick Li, and that the government had made moves to strip editorial independence from RTHK.[14]

In April 2021, Quat claimed that the COVID-19 situation in India was out of control, and that flights from there to Hong Kong should be restricted, despite a mandatory 21-day hotel quarantine for inbound passengers.[15]

In December 2021, it was reported that Quat had a "privileged" vote in the 2021 Hong Kong legislative election, where the vote would count approximately 7,215 times more than an ordinary citizen.[16]

Honours[]

Quat received Ten Outstanding Young Persons and Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons awards in 2001, and named The Most Successful Women 2002.[3]She was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ Quat, Elizabeth (14 August 2012). "Elizabeth Quat Election Platform" (PDF).
  2. ^ "E. Quat's degrees don't equate". webb-site. 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Elizabeth Quat (Dr), Advisor". SC Fulfil. 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  4. ^ "Dr. Elizabeth QUAT (EQ)". Elysium Epic. 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  5. ^ "E. Quat's degrees don't equate". webb-site.com. 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Quat, President and Co-founder of Internet Professional Association" (PDF). Hong Kong IRC. 2004. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  7. ^ "HK face mask manufacturer halts business amid claims of its design violating the national security law". The Standard. 18 November 2020.
  8. ^ Ho, Kelly (29 December 2020). "Covid-19: Lock down domestic workers on their day off, says pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Ban on domestic workers' Sunday gatherings may be discriminating, says labour chief". The Standard.
  10. ^ a b "Hong Kong judiciary rebuffs Beijing loyalist Elizabeth Quat on idea of sentencing council ｜ Apple Daily". Apple Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  11. ^ Kong, Dimsumdaily Hong (2 February 2021). "Department of Justice criticised for slow prosecution rate of offenders of National Security Law". Dimsum Daily. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  12. ^ Kong, Dimsumdaily Hong (12 February 2021). "Elizabeth Quat says BBC deserves to be banned by RTHK for producing fake news to smear China". Dimsum Daily. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  13. ^ "DAB hopes to see 'editorial improvement' at RTHK – RTHK". RTHK. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  14. ^ "RTHK has lost its editorial independence: union – RTHK". RTHK. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  15. ^ Kong, Dimsumdaily Hong (5 April 2021). "Legislative Councillor Elizabeth Quat concerned with lifting of flights ban on South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Ireland". Dimsum Daily. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  16. ^ FactWire (15 December 2021). "Factwire: 41 privileged voters have 7,200 times greater power than a regular Hong Kong voter following election revamp". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Appendix to the 2017 Honours List" (PDF). Hong Kong SAR Government. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

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Preceded by
 Member of the Sha Tin District Council
Representative for Chung On
2008–2015 		Succeeded by
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by Member of Legislative Council
Representative for New Territories East
2012–present 		Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Ip Kin-yuen
Member of the Legislative Council
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Member of the Legislative Council 		Succeeded by
Poon Siu-ping
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