馮檢基

English

Frederick Fung Kin-kee, who holds the Silver Bauhinia Star and is a Justice of the Peace, was born in Hong Kong on 17 March 1953, with ancestral roots in Dongguan, Guangdong. He is a former Hong Kong legislator and former Sham Shui Po district councillor, and a founding member and former chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), which he led for about eighteen years until he resigned as chairman after the 2007 District Council election. He is regarded as one of the moderate pro-democracy figures, with a focus on livelihood, poverty alleviation and social security. As regards service in the legislature, he was returned to the Provisional Legislative Council by the Selection Committee in December 1996, and was elected to the Legislative Council for the Kowloon West geographical constituency in 2000, winning re-election in 2004 and 2008 and then returning in 2012 for the District Council (Second) functional constituency, serving until 2016. At the district level he was long a Sham Shui Po district councillor for the Lai Kok constituency, with deep roots in the area. He has also been active in the media and education, having served as director of general education at the University of Hong Kong and co-hosted the Metro Radio programme 'Fighting in the Wild' with Li Pang-fei. He failed to win in the 2015 District Council election, the 2016 Legislative Council election and the 2018 Kowloon West by-election, gradually stepping back from the council, and he left the ADPL in 2018.