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Selina Chow : biography

25 January 1945 –

Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee, GBS OBE JP () (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., Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Retrieved 24 January 2008

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.Emily Tang, , The Standard, 26 August 2004 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., RTHK News, 15 Dec 2012, Accessed 15 Dec 2012

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.