Secretary for the Civil Service

The Secretary for the Civil Service is the head of the Civil Service Bureau in Hong Kong. Unlike other secretaries for bureaux, the Secretary for the Civil Service is filled by an administrative officer from the civil service, who may choose to return to the civil service when his term expires. Before Principal Officials Accountability System was introduced in 2002, it was a civil service position.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for the Civil Service 公務員事務局局長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Patrick Nip since 22 April 2020
Civil Service Bureau
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Lam Woon-kwong
Formation	1 July 1997
Website	CSB

Secretary for the Civil Service
Traditional Chinese	公務員事務局局長
Simplified Chinese	公务员事务局局长
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gōng​wù​yuán Shì​wù Jú Jú​zhǎng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gūng mouh yùhn sih mouh guhk guhk jéung Jyutping Gung^1 mou^6 jyun^4 si^6 mou^6 guk^6 guk^6 zoeng^2

List of office holders

Colonial period, 1973–1997

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Alan James Scott 施恪	June 1973	August 1977	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
2		R. G. B. Bridge 布立之	August 1977	March 1978
3		John Martin Rowlands 羅能士	March 1978	August 1985
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
4		David Robert Ford 霍德	7 October 1985	December 1986		[1][2]
5		Harnam Singh Grewal 高禮和	9 February 1987	April 1990	Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)	[3]
6		Edward Barrie Wiggham 屈珩	April 1990	April 1993		[4]
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)
7		Anson Chan 陳方安生	19 April 1993	October 1993
8		Michael Sze 施祖祥	1 February 1994	11 February 1996		[5][6]
9		Lam Woon-kwong 林煥光	12 February 1996	30 June 1997		[6]

After transfer of the sovereignty to People's Republic of China, 1997–present

Political party:   Nonpartisan

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Lam Woon-kwong 林煥光	1 July 1997	9 July 2000	3 years, 9 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
2		Joseph Wong Wing-ping 王永平	1 August 2000	24 January 2006	5 years, 176 days
							2
						Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2
3		Denise Yue Chung-yee 俞宗怡	25 January 2006	30 June 2012	6 years, 157 days
							3
4		Paul Tang Kwok-wai 鄧國威	1 July 2012	21 July 2015	3 years, 20 days	Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
5		Clement Cheung Wan-ching 張雲正	21 July 2015	30 June 2017	1 year, 344 days
6		Joshua Law Chi-kong 羅智光	1 July 2017	22 April 2020	2 years, 296 days	Carrie Lam (2017–present)	5
7		Patrick Nip Tak-kuen 聶德權	22 April 2020	Incumbent	292 days

References

1. LegCo
2. "G.N. 3387 of 1985". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 127: 4700. 18 October 1985.
3. "G.N. 440A of 1987". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 129: 667. 13 February 1987.
4. LegCo
5. "G.N. 363 of 1994". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 136: 664, 726. 4 February 1991.
6. "G.N. 733 of 1996". Hong Kong Government Gazette. 138: 1178, 1289. 16 February 1996.

External links

• Principal Officials of the Hong Kong SAR government
• Chapter IV: Political Structure - Basic Law
• Who's Who