Ambrose Lee

Ambrose Lee
Secretary for Security
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 August 2003
Chief Executive	Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang
Chief Secretary	Sir Donald Tsang Michael Suen Rafael Hui Henry Tang
Undersecretary	Lai Tung-kwok
Permanent Secretary	Chang King-yiu
Political Assistant	Victor Lo
Preceded by	Regina Ip

Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong (Chinese: 李少光) IDSM JP is Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong and a member of the Executive Council. He was appointed to his post on 4 August 2003, replacing Regina Ip

Background

Ambrose Lee graduated in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. He has also studied at Tsinghua, Oxford and Harvard universities.

He joined the civil service in 1974 as an immigration officer, rising to become Assistant Director of Immigation in 1995 and Deputy Director of Immigration two years later. He served as Director of Immigration between 1998 and 2002. He was appointed as the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in July 2002.

References

Political offices
Preceded by Regina Ip	Secretary for Security 2003–present	Incumbent
Civic offices
Preceded by Regina Ip	Director of Immigration 1998–2002	Succeeded by Lai Tung-kwok
Preceded by Alan Lai	Commissioner, Independent Commission Against Corruption 2002–2003	Succeeded by Raymond Wong
Order of precedence
Previous: Stephen Lam Sui-lung Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs	Hong Kong order of precedence Secretary for Security	Succeeded by York Chow Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food