Selina Chow

The Honourable Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee 周梁淑怡 GBS, JP
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1981–1995
Appointed by	Sir Murray MacLehose
In office 11 October 1995 – 13 July 2004
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Vincent Fang
Constituency	Wholesale and Retail
In office 6 October 2004 – 16 July 2008
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Wong Kwok-hing
Constituency	New Territories West
Personal details
Born	(1945-01-25) 25 January 1945 Hong Kong
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Chow Ming-kuen, Joseph
Residence	Hong Kong
Alma mater	St. Paul's Co-Educational College Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama University of Hong Kong
Occupation	Legislative Councillor

Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee, GBS OBE JP (Chinese: 周梁淑怡) (born 25 January 1945, Hong Kong) was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. She is the current chairperson of the Liberal Party. She is also well known in Hong Kong for her career in broadcasting.

An alumna of St. Paul's Co-educational College, she obtained a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Hong Kong, and a postgraduate diploma from Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the UK.

Professional career

Chow is unique in Hong Kong's broadcast television industry in that at various points during her career in television, she was employed by all three television stations that have existed in Hong Kong's television history. She started out as a weather presenter. She was first hired as an episodic drama director for TVB and became its Assistant General Manager.

On account of her quality reputation, Chow was recruited from TVB by Commercial Television to be its new General Manager in an attempt to resurrect the ailing station in July 1976. Chow later became the director of Asia Television.

Political career

Chow is a member of the Liberal Party, and represented the Wholesale and Retail functional constituency in Legco from 1995. She was returned to the Legislative Council in 2004 in the New Territories West geographical constituency, but lost her seat in the 2008 election. She then resigned from Exco and as vice-chairman of the Liberal Party.

In December 2012, she was elected unopposed as Liberal Party chairperson, taking the reins following the party's exceptionally poor performance in the 2012 Hong Kong legislative election, and the consequent resignation of Miriam Lau. The leadership process had been slated for completion in October but in the event acting chairman Vincent Fang was required to keep the seat warm for a further two months.

Tourism Board and other positions

Chow joined the Hong Kong Tourist Association in 2000 as chairman, and continued to serve as chairman of the committee when the Association became the Hong Kong Tourism Board in 2001.

She has also been a board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, honorary adviser to Against Child Abuse, and director of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Society.

See also

• List of graduates of University of Hong Kong

References

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
New constituency	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Wholesale and Retail 1995–1997	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
New parliament	Member of Provisional Legislative Council 1997–1998	Replaced by Legislative Council
	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Wholesale and Retail 1998–2004	Succeeded by Vincent Fang
New seat	Member of Legislative Council Representative for New Territories West 2004–2008 Served alongside: Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, Tam Yiu-chung, Leung Yiu-chung, Albert Chan, Lee Wing-tat, Cheung Hok-ming	Succeeded by Wong Kwok-hing
Party political offices
Preceded by Acting Chairman Vincent Fang	Chairwoman of the Liberal Party 2012–present	Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by Lee Shing-see Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star	Hong Kong order of precedence Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star	Succeeded by Chang Hsin-kang Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star