Patrick Nip

Patrick Nip Tak-kuen (Chinese: 聶德權; born 1964) is a Hong Kong government official. He became the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs from 2017.

He graduated from the Kwun Tong Maryknoll College and the University of Hong Kong in 1986. He also obtained a master's degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States. He has also studied at the Oxford University and attended national studies courses at the Chinese Academy of Governance.^[1]

He joined the Administrative Service in August 1986. He served in the various bureaux and departments, including the City and New Territories Administration, the Deputy Chief Secretary's Office, the Trade and Industry Branch, the Finance Branch, the Civil Service Branch, the Trade Department, the Chief Executive's Office, the former Health and Welfare Bureau, the Beijing Office and the former Health, Welfare and Food Bureau.^[2]

In 2009 he was appointed Director of Social Welfare in 2009 and Director (Special Duties), Chief Secretary for Administration's Private Office in 2013 before he became the Director of Information Services since February 2014. He became the Permanent Secretary for Food and Health (Health) in July 2016.^[2]

In 2017, he was appointed Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs in Chief Executive Carrie Lam's administration.

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