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 (Hong Kong). 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 U.K.^[1]

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 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.

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 declared to resign the member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and vice-chairman of the Liberal Party then. She has been Chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, Board Member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, Honorary adviser to Against Child Abuse, and Director of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Society.

Tourism Board

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.

See also

• List of graduates of University of Hong Kong

References

1. ^ Members' Biography, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Retrieved 24 January 2008
2. ^ 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

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Name	Chow, Selina
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Date of birth	25 January 1945
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