Selina Chow
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 was the former vice-chairman of the Liberal Party. She is also well-known in Hong Kong for her career in broadcasting.
An alumnus of St. Paul's Co-educational College, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Hong Kong, and post-graduate Diploma, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the UK[1]
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[edit] 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.[2] 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.
[edit] Political career
Chow is a member of the Liberal Party, and represented the Wholesale and Retail functional constituency in Legco since 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.
[edit] Tourism Board and other positions
Chow joined the Hong Kong Tourism Association in 2000 as chairman. Chow continued to serve as chairman of the committee when the Hong Kong Tourism 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Members' Biography, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Retrieved 24 January 2008
- ^ Emily Tang, Stars unite to kick-off Selina Chow's Legco bid, The Standard, 26 August 2004
| Legislative Council of Hong Kong | ||
|---|---|---|
| New constituency | Member of Legislative Council Representative for Wholesale and Retail constituency 1995–1997 |
Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council |
| New parliament | Member of Legislative Council Representative for Wholesale and Retail constituency 1998–2004 |
Succeeded by Vincent Fang |
| New seat | Member of Legislative Council Representative for New Territories West constituency 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 |
- 1945 births
- Hong Kong people
- Living people
- Hong Kong members of the CPPCC National Committee of the People's Republic of China
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
- Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Liberal Party (Hong Kong) politicians