林健鋒

English

Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung was born on 23 October 1951, with family roots in Dali, Nanhai, Guangdong, and grew up in Hong Kong; he graduated from Tufts University in the United States with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He comes from a toy-manufacturing family: his father Lam Leung was a pioneer of Hong Kong's toy industry who had opened a plastics factory in Guangzhou as early as 1949, and in 1979 father and son founded the Wing Wo toy factory in Dongguan, among the earliest Hong Kong manufacturers to set up in the mainland after reform and opening. He is the Chairman of Wing Wo (Forward Winsome) Industries and has long been active in manufacturing and business affairs. He is currently Chairman of the Vocational Training Council and a member of the Hong Kong Tourism Board; he also sits on the Council of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the General Committee of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, and has served on the board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, as a non-executive director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation and as chairman of the ICAC Complaints Committee. In 2004 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the Commercial (First) functional constituency, succeeding James Tien, who had moved to a directly elected seat; he was returned several times before standing down at the 2021 election, ending seventeen years in the chamber as a leading voice for business. A former chairman of the Liberal Party, in October 2012 he and six other business-sector legislators founded the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA), in which he serves as vice-chairman, and he was appointed a non-official member of the Executive Council the same year, serving on it thereafter. He has been a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and has held posts on the Standing Committee on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service and the Fight Crime Committee, and is an honorary president of the Pearl River Delta Council. He has long followed the business environment for small and medium enterprises, labour importation, vocational education and the prospects of Hong Kong manufacturers in the delta, arguing for better conditions for industry. He holds an MBE and is a Justice of the Peace, received the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2011 and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2023.