Maria Tam

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Maria Tam : biography

11 February 1945 –

Maria Tam Wai-Chu, GBS, CBE, JP (Traditional Chinese: 譚惠珠) is a barrister by profession and a contributor in the public domain of Hong Kong. An alumna of St. Paul’s Co-educational College, she received her legal education at the University of London and subsequently became a member of Gray’s Inn, London.

In the 1980s she was a member of four different levels councils in Hong Kong, namely the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Urban Council of Hong Kong and the Central and Western District Board. She was also a former Chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee, a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (PRC) and Hong Kong Affairs Advisor (PRC). She is a member of the Board of the Airport Authority Hong Kong, a member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the ICAC, a deputy to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and a member of the Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR under the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.

In February 2006, Tam joined the board of subsequently Hong Kong-listed mainland Chinese Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Ltd, one of the world’s largest paperboard manufacturers, whose conditions for workers at its plants were sharply criticised in the 2008 human rights report by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and by Hong Kong’s Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM).