Secretary for Development

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Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region

Secretary for Development
發展局局長
Regional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg
Ning Han Hao 20230607 (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Bernadette Linn
since 1 July 2022
Development Bureau
Style The Honourable
Appointer Central People's Government
nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder Gordon Siu
Secretary for Planning and Lands
Carrie Lam
Secretary for Development
Formation21 January 1999
1 July 2007
Salary HK$4,021,200 per annum [1]
Website DEVB
   Nonpartisan

Surveyor General, 1842–1891

Secretary for Development
Traditional Chinese 發展局局長
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Faat jín guhk guhk jéung
Jyutping Faat3 zin2 guk6 guk6 zoeng2
No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 No image.svg Alexander T. Gordon
歌頓
18421845Sir Henry Pottinger
(1841–1843)
Administrator
Sir Henry Pottinger
(1843–1844)
Sir John Francis Davis
(1844–1848)
2 Charles Saint George Cleverly.jpg Charles St George Cleverly
急庇利
18451865
Sir George Bonham
(1848–1854)
Sir John Bowring
(1854–1859)
Sir Hercules Robinson
(1859–1865)
3 No image.svg Wilberforce Wilson
衛信
18651869
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
(1866–1872)
4 No image.svg Lewis Henry Moorsom
睦誠
18691873
Sir Arthur Kennedy
(1872–1877)
5 No image.svg John MacNeile Price
裴樂士
18731889
Sir John Pope Hennessy
(1877–1882)
Sir George Bowen
(1883–1885)
Sir William Des Voeux
(1887–1891)
6 No image.svg Samuel Brown
布朗
18891891
Sir William Robinson
(1891–1898)

Directors of Public Works, 1891–1941

No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 No image.svg Francis Alfred Cooper
谷柏
10 October 18911897Sir William Robinson
(1891–1898)
2 No image.svg Robert Daly Ormsby
安庶庇
21 October 18971901
Sir Henry Arthur Blake
(1898–1903)
3 William Chatham.jpg William Chatham
漆咸
12 October 19011921
Sir Matthew Nathan
(1904–1907)
Sir Frederick Lugard
(1907–1912)
Sir Francis Henry May
(1912–1918)
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
(1919–1925)
4 No image.svg Thomas Luff Perkins
白健時
1 July 19211923
5 No image.svg Harold Thomas Creasy
祈禮士
30 August 19231932
Sir Cecil Clementi
(1925–1930)
Sir William Peel
(1930–1935)
6 No image.svg Richard McNeil Henderson
軒德蓀
12 December 19321939
Sir Andrew Caldecott
(1935–1937)
Sir Geoffry Northcote
(1937–1941)
7 No image.svg Alexander Bruce Purves
包華士
28 September 193925 December 1941
Mark Aitchison Young
(1941)

Directors of Public Works, 1946–1981

No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
- No image.svg Harold Stuart Rouse 7 September 19451946Military administration
8 No image.svg Victor Kenneth Kenniff 15 May 19461949Sir Mark Aitchison Young
(1946–1947)
Sir Alexander Grantham
(1947–1957)
9 No image.svg Edward Audley Boyce 26 August 19491950
10 No image.svg Theodore Louis Bowring
包寧
5 December 19501957
11 No image.svg Allan Inglis
英格理
22 May 195728 February 1963 [2]
Sir Robert Brown Black
(1958–1964)
12 No image.svg Alec Michael John Wright
鄔勵德
7 March 196327 March 1969 [3] [4]
Sir David Trench
(1964–1971)
13 No image.svg James Jeavons Robson
盧秉信
28 March 1969August 1973 [4]
Sir Murray MacLehose
(1971–1982)
14 No image.svg David Wylie McDonald
麥德霖
February 19741981
Development issues were handled by Secretary for Lands and Works between 1981 and 1989.

Secretaries for Works, 1989–1997

PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 No image.svg Kenneth Kwok
郭偉階
1 September 198931 March 1992Sir David Wilson
(1987–1992)
2 No image.svg Ronald James Blake
詹伯樂
1 April 1992May 1995
Chris Patten
(1992–1997)
3 No image.svg Kwong Hon-sang
鄺漢生
15 May 199530 June 1997

Secretaries for Works, 1997–2002

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDuration Chief Executive TermRef
1 No image.svg Kwong Hon-sang
鄺漢生
1 July 19976 August 19991 year, 37 days Tung Chee-hwa
(1997–2005)
1
2 No image.svg Lee Shing-see
李承仕
7 August 199930 June 20022 years, 328 days
Development issues were handled by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works between 2002 and 2007.

Secretaries for Development, 2007–present

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDuration Chief Executive TermRef
1 Carrie Lam 2016.jpg Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
林鄭月娥
1 July 200730 June 20125 years, 0 days Donald Tsang
(2005–2012)
3
2 No image.svg Mak Chai-kwong
麥齊光
1 July 201212 July 201211 days Leung Chun-ying
(2012–2017)
4
3 Cai Zheng Si Si Chang Chen Mao Bo 17.jpg Paul Chan Mo-po
陳茂波
30 July 201216 January 20174 years, 170 days
4 Blanksvg.svg Eric Ma Siu-cheung
馬紹祥
13 February 201730 June 2017138 days
5 Michael Wong Wai-lun.png Michael Wong Wai-lun
黃偉綸
1 July 201730 June 20225 years, 0 days Carrie Lam
(2017–2022)
5
6 Ning Han Hao 20230607 (cropped).jpg Bernadette Linn Hon-ho
甯漢豪
1 July 2022Incumbent3 years, 3 days John Lee
(2022–present)
6

See also

References

  1. "Remuneration package for Politically Appointed Officials serving in fifth-term HKSAR Government". Government of Hong Kong . 12 December 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  2. "G.N. 384 of 1963". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 105: 506. 1 March 1963.
  3. "G.N. 429 of 1963". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 105: 574. 8 March 1963.
  4. 1 2 "G.N. 608 of 1969". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 111: 676. 3 April 1969.