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張超雄(Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung),1957年2月23日生於澳門,香港註冊社工及社會福利學者,曾任立法會議員。他早年隨家人移居香港,先後取得社會工作相關學位,其後負笈美國,於加州大學柏克萊分校取得社會福利博士學位。留美期間,他曾在一間華人社會服務機構擔任主管,負責社區服務規劃與推行,累積前線以至行政層面的經驗。回港後,他任職大學講師,並以社工身分投入殘疾人士及弱勢社群權益的倡議,長期關注院舍服務、特殊教育及照顧者支援等議題。
2004年,他代表社會福利界功能界別當選立法會議員,首度進入議會,任期至2008年。2012年,他轉戰新界東地方選區並成功當選,其後連任,議會生涯延續至2020年。他亦是工黨副主席,負責對外事務。在議會內外,他以關注弱勢、敢言見稱,經常就社會福利、人權及平等機會等政策發聲,並就照顧者政策、殘疾人士就業及院舍監管等課題提出具體主張。
2020年之後,他因一宗涉及立法會會議秩序的藐視立法會案件面對法律程序,並於2022年初罪成,被判入獄三星期。出獄後,他於同年離開香港前往加拿大多倫多,其後獲當地政治庇護,並自2023年9月起於約克大學社會工作學院任教,延續其教研及社會服務工作。
English
Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung, born in Macau on 23 February 1957, is a registered social worker and social welfare scholar who served as a member of the Legislative Council. He moved to Hong Kong with his family at a young age, took a degree in social work and later studied in the United States, earning a doctorate in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. While in the United States he headed a Chinese community service agency, planning and running community programmes and gaining frontline and administrative experience. After returning to Hong Kong he taught at university and, as a social worker, campaigned for the rights of people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups, focusing on residential care services, special education and support for carers.
In 2004 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the social welfare functional constituency, entering the council for the first time until 2008. In 2012 he switched to the New Territories East geographical constituency, won a seat and was later returned again, remaining in the council until 2020. He was also a vice-chairman of the Labour Party responsible for external affairs. In and outside the council he was known for speaking up for the vulnerable and for his outspokenness on social welfare, human rights and equal opportunities, and he put forward concrete proposals on carer policy, employment for people with disabilities and the regulation of residential care homes.
After 2020 he faced legal proceedings over a case concerning order at council meetings, was convicted of contempt of the Legislative Council in early 2022 and jailed for three weeks. Following his release he left Hong Kong for Toronto later that year, obtained political asylum in Canada, and since September 2023 has taught at the School of Social Work of York University, continuing his work in teaching, research and social service.