Katherine Ng
| Katherine Ng | |
|---|---|
| Political Assistant for the Financial Services and the Treasury | |
|
Assumed office 14 August 2008 | |
| Secretary | Prof. Ka-keung Chan |
| Undersecretary | Julia Leung |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1974 (age 43–44) Singapore |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge University of Law |
Katherine Ng Kit Shuen (伍潔鏇), born in 1974, is the Political Assistant to the Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury of Hong Kong.
Personal history
She was born in Singapore and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 3. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in London, and a Master of Arts Degree in Law from the University of Cambridge. She qualified as a solicitor in the UK and Hong Kong in 1998 and 1999 respectively.[1]
She worked for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong from 2005 as the Director of its legal department. She has served at Linklaters' offices in London and Hong Kong, and was a Compliance Officer in Donald Tsang's election campaign for the Chief Executive of HKSAR.
Political assistant
She was appointed as a political assistant on 22 May 2008 by Donald Tsang. She is appointed under the expanded political appointment system on non-civil service terms for the term ending 30 June 2012.
As a political assistant, she receives HK$163,960 per month, 55% of a bureau director's salary.[2]
Ng holds a Singaporean passport and not a Hong Kong SAR passport. She said she will not renounce it.[3]