朱幼麟

English

David Chu Yu-lin is a Hong Kong businessman and former legislator, born in mainland China on 5 March 1944. He studied in the United States, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and management from Northeastern University and an MBA from Harvard University, and was later awarded an honorary doctorate in public service by Northeastern. He built a career in business, chairing a satellite technology holding company and a group engaged in investment, technology and trade, and serving as a director of various companies. From the early 1990s he took part in public affairs, serving as a Hong Kong affairs adviser, a member of the Preparatory Committee and its preliminary working committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and a member of the Selection Committee for the first government. He was a member of the Legislative Council for the Election Committee constituency from 1995 to 1997, a member of the Provisional Legislative Council from 1997 to 1998, and then served in the First and Second Legislative Councils for the Election Committee constituency until 2004. In the council he chaired the Committee on Members' Interests, and he sat on the Housing Authority, the council of Hong Kong Baptist University and the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Advisory Committee, and chaired the advisory committee on the Pacific War Memorial pensions. He was also a member of the executive committee of the social service agency Helping Hand, a member of the Hong Kong electoral conference for the Ninth National People's Congress and honorary president of the Hong Kong Police rank-and-file association. Earlier he had served as an auxiliary police officer and was a pistol shooter on the Hong Kong shooting team.