Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury 財經事務及庫務局局長 | |
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Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive |
Inaugural holder | Rafael Hui Secretary for Financial Services Frederick Ma Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury |
Formation | 1 July 1997 1 July 2002 |
Salary | HK$4,021,200 per annum [1] |
Website | FSTB |
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 財經事務及庫務局局長 | ||||||||
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The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury,head of Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau of the Hong Kong Government,is responsible for the monitoring of financial services sector and maintaining the assets of the government.
The position was created on 1 July 2002,when the Principal Officials Accountability System was introduced,by merging the previous positions of Secretary for the Treasury and Secretary for Financial Services.
Political party: Nonpartisan Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Governor | Ref | |
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1 | Douglas Blye 白禮宜 | 1976 | 1985 | Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982) | ||
Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986) | ||||||
2 | David Nendick 林定國 | 1985 | 1992 | |||
Sir David Wilson (1987–1992) | ||||||
Chris Patten (1992–1997) | ||||||
3 | Michael David Cartland 簡德倫 | January 1993 | April 1993 | |||
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Governor | Ref | |
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1 | Michael David Cartland 簡德倫 | April 1993 | 1995 | Chris Patten (1992–1997) | ||
2 | Rafael Hui 許仕仁 | 1995 | 30 June 1997 | |||
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Duration | Chief Executive | Term | Ref | |
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1 | Rafael Hui Si-yan 許仕仁 | 1 July 1997 | 31 May 2000 | 2 years, 335 days | Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005) | 1 | ||
2 | Stephen Ip Shue-kwan 葉澍堃 | 13 June 2002 | 30 June 2002 | 17 days | ||||
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Duration | Chief Executive | Term | Ref | |
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1 | Frederick Ma Si-hang 馬時亨 | 1 July 2002 | 30 June 2007 | 5 years, 0 days | Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005) | 2 | ||
Donald Tsang (2005–2012) | 2 | |||||||
2 | KC Chan 陳家強 | 1 July 2007 | 30 June 2017 | 10 years, 0 days | 3 | |||
Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017) | 4 | |||||||
3 | James Henry Lau 劉怡翔 | 1 July 2017 | 22 April 2020 | 2 years, 296 days | Carrie Lam (2017–2022) | 5 | ||
4 | Christopher Hui Ching-yu 許正宇 | 22 April 2020 | Incumbent | 3 years, 350 days | ||||
John Lee (2022–present) | 6 |
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