Financial Secretary (Hong Kong)

For other uses, see Financial secretary.

Financial Secretary (Chinese: 財政司司長), often abbreviated as FS, is a position of the Government of Hong Kong. The FS assists the Chief Executive (Governor before the transfer of sovereignty) in supervising the policy bureaux as directed by the CE, mostly finance and economy-related, and plays a key role in ensuring harmonisation in policy formulation and implementation. The FS is also responsible for delivering the annual budget at the Legislative Council.

Before 1940, the position was titled Colonial Treasurer.

List of Colonial Treasurers before 1937

• Robert Montgomery Martin (1844–1845)
• William Thomas Mercer (1845–54)
• ? Ricnaecker (1854–56)
• T.H. Forth (1856–62)
• James Russell (1882)
• Alfred Lister (1882–1883)
• H.E. Wodehouse (1883–90)
• ? Mitchell-Innes (1891–93)
• F.H. May (acting)
• Norman Gilbert Mitchell-Innes (1890–1895)
• A. M. Thomson (acting) (1895–1897)
• T. Sercombe Smith (1897–1898)
• A. M. Thomson (1899–1918)
• C. McI. Messer (1918–1931)
• E. Taylors (1931–1937)

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List of Financial Secretaries between 1937 and 1997

• Sir Sydney Caine KCMG(1937–1940)
• Henry R. Butters (1940–1941)
• Sir Geoffrey Follows (1946–1951)
• Arthur Grenfell Clarke CMG (1952–1961)
• Sir John James Cowperthwaite KBE CMG (1961–1971)
• Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave KBE CMG (1971–1981)
• Sir John Henry Bremridge KBE (1981–1986)
• Sir Piers Jacobs KBE (1986–1991)
• Sir Hamish Macleod KBE (1991–1995)
• Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen GBM KBE (Sept 1995- June 1997)

List of Financial Secretaries after 1997

• Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen GBM, KBE (July 1997 - May 2001)
• Antony Leung Kam-chung (May 2001 - July 2003)
• Henry Tang Ying-yen (July 2003 - June 2007)
• John Tsang Chun-wah (July 2007 - )