黃繼兒

English

Stephen Wong Kai-yi is a Hong Kong barrister, called in Hong Kong in 1993; the Bar List also records his 1988 admission in Australia. On 24 July 2015 the Government announced that the Chief Executive had appointed him Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data under section 5 of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance for a five-year term from 4 August 2015. The release set out a detailed record: he was then 60 and a practising barrister, and had been Secretary to the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2014 before retiring from the civil service. Before that he served in the Department of Justice (the then Legal Department before 1997) as legal counsel from 1986 to 2007, holding posts including Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions and Deputy Solicitor General, and from 2007 to 2012 was Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices in Brussels and then Berlin. The release also noted that he is an expert in human rights law: he was involved in the legislative process of the 1991 Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance and was later seconded to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva as an associate expert, continuing to advise and appear in court on human rights issues after returning to Hong Kong in 1992. The five-year term therefore ran from 4 August 2015 to 3 August 2020. The Bar List does not record his education, so that point is left blank.