周梁淑怡

English

Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee, born on 25 January 1945 with ancestral roots in Panyu, Guangdong, grew up in Hong Kong and holds the Gold Bauhinia Star, the OBE and the rank of Justice of the Peace. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong, she joined Television Broadcasts (TVB) in 1966 as one of the station's first thirty-odd staff, became Hong Kong's first weather girl, then moved to assistant directing for the English and Chinese channels before being promoted to assistant general manager in charge of the whole programming section. She left TVB in 1977 to become general manager of Commercial Television, where in July 1978 she launched a large-scale promotional campaign and brought in directors such as Tsui Hark; after the station collapsed she moved to other broadcasters and was chief executive of Asia Television from 1988 to 1991, one of the very few executives to have run all three of Hong Kong's main television stations. In politics she served on the Executive Council, as a Legislative Council member for New Territories West and as a Mong Kok district councillor, and was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Appointed to head the Hong Kong Tourist Association in 2000, she continued as chairman until 2007 when it became the Hong Kong Tourism Board in 2001, promoting the city abroad. In the 2004 LegCo election she and James Tien contested New Territories West and New Territories East respectively, both winning as the Liberal Party took ten seats and became the second-largest party, and she frequently spoke for the tourism sector and the party on economic, tourism and broadcasting policy. She was elected Liberal Party chairperson in December 2012, served until 2014 and later became its honorary chairperson. Her husband was Chau Ming-kuen, former chairman of the Hong Kong Examinations Authority, and they had two children.