Secretary for Education

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Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region

Secretary for Education
教育局局長
Regional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg
Choi Yuk-lin in 2016 (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Christine Choi
since 1 July 2022
Education Bureau
Style The Honourable
Appointer Central People's Government
nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder Joseph Wong
Secretary for Education and Manpower
Michael Suen
Secretary for Education
Formation1 July 1997
1 July 2007
Salary HK$4,021,200 per annum [1]
Website EDB
   Nonpartisan

Inspectors of Schools, 1862–1909

Secretary for Education
Traditional Chinese 教育局局長
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Gaau yuhk guhk guhk jéung
Jyutping Gaau3 juk6 guk6 guk6 zoeng2
No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 Shi Zhao Yu .jpg Frederick Stewart
史釗域
3 March 18626 March 1878Sir Hercules Robinson
Sir Richard MacDonnell
(1866–1872)
Sir Arthur Kennedy
(1872–1877)
Sir John Hennessy
(1877–1882)
2 Ernest John Eitel.jpg Ernest John Eitel
歐德理
7 March 18781897
Sir George Bowen
(1883–1885)
Sir William Des Voeux
(1887–1891)
Sir William Robinson
(1891–1898)
3 Arthur Winbolt Brewin.jpg Arthur Winbolt Brewin
蒲魯賢
15 August 18971901
Sir Henry Blake
(1898–1903)
4 No image.svg Edward Alexander Irving
伊榮
24 April 19017 April 1909
Sir Matthew Nathan
(1903–1907)
Sir Frederick Lugard
(1907–1912)

Directors of Education, 1909–1941

No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 No image.svg Edward Alexander Irving
伊榮
8 April 19097 February 1924Sir Frederick Lugard
(1907–1912)
Sir Francis Henry May
(1912–1918)
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
(1919–1925)
2 No image.svg Geoffrey Norman Orme
庵氏
19241926
Sir Cecil Clementi
(1925–1930)
3 No image.svg Alan Eustace Wood
活雅倫
19261933
Sir William Peel
(1930–1935)
4 Norman Lockhart Smith.jpg Norman Lockhart Smith
史美
19331934
5 No image.svg Geoffrey Robley Sayer
佘義
19341938
Sir Andrew Caldecott
(1935–1937)
Sir Geoffry Northcote
(1937–1941)
6 No image.svg Clifford George Sollis
梳利士
19381941
Mark Aitchison Young
(1941)

Directors of Education, 1946–1983

No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
7 No image.svg Thomas Richmond Rowell
柳惠露
19461950Sir Mark Aitchison Young
(1946–1947)
Sir Alexander Grantham
(1947–1957)
8 No image.svg Douglas James Smyth Crozier
高詩雅
195028 April 1961
Sir Robert Brown Black
(1958–1964)
9 No image.svg Peter Donohue
唐露曉
29 April 196120 February 1964 [2]
10 No image.svg William David Gregg
簡乃傑
21 February 19645 June 1969Sir David Trench
(1964–1971)
[3] [4]
11 No image.svg John Canning
簡寧
6 June 19691974 [4]
Sir Murray MacLehose
(1971–1982)
12 No image.svg Kenneth Wallis Joseph Topley
陶建
19741983

Secretaries for Education and Manpower, 1983–1997

No.PortraitNameTerm of office Governor Ref
1 No image.svg James Neil Henderson
韓達誠
198325 August 1986Sir Edward Youde
(1982–1986)
[5]
2 No image.svg R. G. B. Bridge
布立之
26 August 19861989Sir David Wilson
(1987–1992)

[5]

3 No image.svg Yeung Kai-yin
楊啟彥
19891991
4 John Chan.jpg John Chan
陳祖澤
19911993
Chris Patten
(1992–1997)
5 No image.svg Leung Man-kin
梁文建
19931995
6 Joseph Wong Wing-ping.jpg Joseph Wong
王永平
August 199530 June 1997

Secretaries for Education and Manpower, 1997–2007

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDuration Chief Executive TermRef
1 Joseph Wong Wing-ping.jpg Joseph Wong Wing-ping
王永平
1 July 19973 July 20003 years, 2 days Tung Chee-hwa
(1997–2005)
1
2 Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun(7622482376).jpg Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun
羅范椒芬
3 July 20003 June 20021 year, 362 days
3 Arthur Li.jpg Arthur Li Kwok-cheung
李國章
1 July 200230 June 20075 years, 0 days 2
Donald Tsang
(2005–2012)
2

Secretaries for Education, 2007–present

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDuration Chief Executive TermRef
1 Michael Suen Ming Yeung.JPG Michael Suen Ming-yeung
孫明揚
1 July 200730 June 20125 years, 0 days Donald Tsang
(2005–2012)
3
2 Ng Hak-kim in 2015.jpg Eddie Ng Hak-kim
吳克儉
1 July 201230 June 20175 years, 0 days Leung Chun-ying
(2012–2017)
4
3 Kelvin Yeung Yun-hung.png Kevin Yeung Yun-hung
楊潤雄
1 July 201730 June 20225 years, 0 days Carrie Lam
(2017–present)
5
4 Choi Yuk-lin in 2016 (cropped).jpg Christine Choi Yuk-lin
蔡若蓮
1 July 2022Incumbent2 years, 108 days John Lee
(2022–present)
6

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