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鄭若驊(Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah),香港資深大律師,2018年至2022年出任律政司司長,現任國際調解院秘書長,於金鐘力寶中心設辦事處。
按香港大律師公會名冊,她1987年在香港及英格蘭及威爾斯獲認許為大律師,2000年獲委任為資深大律師,另於1989年在澳洲新南威爾斯省、1995年在新加坡獲事務律師資格。名冊列出的資歷包括法學士、工程學士(BSc (Eng))、香港仲裁司學會及英國特許仲裁司學會資深會員、特許仲裁員、英國特許工程師、英國土木工程師學會資深會員、香港工程師學會正會員,以及香港國際仲裁中心認可調解員。
政府於2018年1月5日公布任免時同時列出她的簡歷:加入政府前私人執業,具特許工程師、特許仲裁員及專業調解員資格,經常在複雜的國際商事及國際投資糾紛中獲委任為代理人或仲裁員;她是亞洲國際法律研究院創始成員及前任主席、國際商事仲裁會前任副主席、國際商會國際仲裁院前任副主席及香港國際仲裁中心前任主席;2008年經全球選舉成為首位出任特許仲裁學會主席的亞洲女性;2011年至2017年出任高等法院原訟庭暫委/特委法官;並曾任世界銀行國際投資爭端解決中心仲裁員及世界銀行制裁委員會成員。她亦是倫敦大學英皇學院院士及清華大學法學院國際仲裁與爭端解決前任專案主任。
2018年1月6日,她接替袁國強出任律政司司長。2022年6月19日,中央人民政府根據候任行政長官李家超的提名任命第六屆政府主要官員,律政司司長由林定國出任。2025年10月20日,國際調解院在香港正式開業,成為首個總部設於香港的政府間國際組織;按政府2026年向立法會提交的資料,她以秘書長身分按《關於建立國際調解院的公約》領導秘書處運作。
English
Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah SC is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel who served as Secretary for Justice from 2018 to 2022, is now Secretary-General of the International Organization for Mediation, and keeps an office in Lippo Centre, Admiralty.
The Bar Association's register records that she was called to the Bar in Hong Kong and in England and Wales in 1987, was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000, and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1989 and in Singapore in 1995. Its list of qualifications includes a Bachelor of Laws, a BSc (Eng), fellowship of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Arbitrator status, Chartered Engineer status, fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers, corporate membership of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and accreditation as a mediator with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
When the Government announced the change of Secretary for Justice on 5 January 2018 it published her biography: in private practice she held chartered engineer, chartered arbitrator and accredited mediator qualifications and was regularly appointed as counsel or arbitrator in complex international commercial and investment disputes. She was a founder and former Chairman of the Asian Academy of International Law, a former Vice-President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, a former Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a former Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; in 2008 she became, through a worldwide election, the first Asian woman to serve as President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; she was a Deputy Judge or Recorder of the Court of First Instance from 2011 to 2017; and she had been an arbitrator of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and a member of the World Bank's sanctions committee. She is a Fellow of King's College London and a former programme director of international arbitration and dispute resolution at the Tsinghua University School of Law.
She succeeded Rimsky Yuen as Secretary for Justice on 6 January 2018. On 19 June 2022 the Central People's Government, on the nomination of incoming Chief Executive John Lee, appointed the principal officials of the sixth-term Government, with Paul Lam taking the justice portfolio. The International Organization for Mediation formally opened in Hong Kong on 20 October 2025 as the first intergovernmental organisation headquartered in the city, and according to material the Government put to the Legislative Council in 2026 she leads its secretariat as Secretary-General under the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organization for Mediation.