Katherine Ng
Katherine Ng | |
|---|---|
| Political Assistant for the Financial Services and the Treasury | |
| Assumed office 14 August 2008 | |
| Secretary | Prof. Ka-keung Chan |
| Undersecretary | Julia Leung |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1974 (age 47–48) Singapore |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge University of Law |
Katherine Ng Kit Shuen (伍潔鏇), born in 1974, is the to the Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury of Hong Kong.
Personal history[]
She was born in Singapore and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 3. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in London, and a Master of Arts Degree in Law from the University of Cambridge. She qualified as a solicitor in the UK and Hong Kong in 1998 and 1999 respectively.[1]
She worked for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong from 2005 as the Director of its legal department. She has served at Linklaters' offices in London and Hong Kong, and was a Compliance Officer in Donald Tsang's election campaign for the Chief Executive of HKSAR.
Political assistant[]
She was appointed as a political assistant on 22 May 2008 by Donald Tsang. She is appointed under the expanded political appointment system on non-civil service terms for the term ending 30 June 2012.
As a political assistant, she receives HK$163,960 per month, 55% of a bureau director's salary.[2]
Ng holds a Singaporean passport and not a Hong Kong SAR passport. She said she will not renounce it.[3]
References[]
- ^ CE appoints Political Assistants (with photos)
- ^ "Political appointees disclose salaries". Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ The Standard - Hong Kong's First FREE English Newspaper
- Living people
- 1974 births
- Singaporean people of Chinese descent
- Government officials of Hong Kong
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge