Lau Kong-wah
Ray Lau Kong-wah | |
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劉江華 | |
| Secretary for Home Affairs | |
| In office 21 July 2015 – 22 April 2020 | |
| Chief Executive | Leung Chun-ying Carrie Lam |
| Preceded by | Tsang Tak-sing |
| Succeeded by | Caspar Tsui |
| Under Secretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs | |
| In office 21 December 2012 – 21 July 2015 | |
| Secretary | Raymond Tam |
| Preceded by | Adeline Wong |
| Succeeded by | Ronald Chan |
| Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | |
| In office 14 October 2008 – 30 June 2012 | |
| Appointed by | Donald Tsang |
| Preceded by | Jasper Tsang |
| Succeeded by | Starry Lee |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2012 | |
| Preceded by | New parliament |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Quat |
| Constituency | New Territories East |
| In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 June 1957 British Hong Kong |
| Political party | United Democrats (1991–93) Civil Force (1993–present) DAB (1998–present) |
| Spouse | Muk Fei-man |
| Alma mater | St. Paul College Sir Robert Black College of Education University of Exeter City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. |
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉江華 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘江华 | ||||||||||||
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Ray Lau Kong-wah, JP (born 22 June 1957, Hong Kong), is a former Hong Kong Government official and former member of both the Legislative Council and the Executive Council. Until 2020, he was Secretary for Home Affairs.
Lau was vice-chairman of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), after founding the similarly aligned Civil Force in 1993. Before that, he was a member of a pro-democracy party, United Democrats of Hong Kong, one of the predecessors of the Democratic Party.