Chan Hoi-yan
Rebecca Chan Hoi-yan (Chinese: 陳凱欣; born 19 November 1977) is a politician and former journalist. She was a political assistant to Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man from 2012 to 2017. She is tipped as the candidate for the 2018 November Kowloon West by-election.
Biography
Chan was graduated from the Department of Journalism of the School of Communication of the Hong Kong Baptist University and before she obtained a Master of Social Sciences Degree in Media Management from the Baptist University. She was honoured with the Baptist University's Distinguished Alumni Communicator Award in 2008.[1]
She joined the news department of TVB as a reporter in 1998 and became a senior reporter and anchor before she left for Now TV in 2005 as a news editor (news and business information) and assisted in setting up the now business news channel and the news channel. She was also an executive producer of the medical programme "Medicine Online".[1]
She was recommended by Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man to be his political assistant in December 2012.[1] She left the government on 1 July 2017 after the Ko's tenure expired.[2] She became CEO of social enterprise Sounds Great Services after she left the government.[3]
She emerged as the potential candidate of the 2018 November Kowloon West by-election after Ko declined to run and endorsed Chan's candidacy.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "Political Assistant appointed". Hong Kong government. November 30, 2012.
- ↑ "Post-office employment for former politically appointed officials". Hong Kong government. September 4, 2017.
- ↑ "Tam back with his old boss". The Standard. September 5, 2017.
- ↑ Siu, Sai-wo (16 August 2018). "Journos still eye politics". Hong Kong Standard.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Paul Chan |
Political Assistant to Secretary for Food and Health 2012–2017 |
Succeeded by Kelvin Cheng |