Joseph Wong
24 January 2006 – 30 June 2007
1 August 2000 – 24 January 2006
British Hong Kong
University of Oxford
Joseph Wong Wing-ping GBS, JP (Hong Kong language: 王永平; born 25 July 1948) was the Secretary for Education Department, Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology and the Secretary for the Civil Service in Hong Kong.
Wong completed his secondary school education at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, an eminent all-male Roman Catholic Jesuit school in Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1969. He also attended a one-year postgraduate course at the University of Oxford in 1974 and an eight-week Executive Program at Stanford University in 1989.
Wong is a career civil servant and was previously Hong Kong's permanent representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). He has also been a professor at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1]
He continues to provide public commentary through opinion pieces in local media, such as South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal and EJ Insight.[2]
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Preceded by | Secretary for Education and Manpower 1995 – 2000 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Secretary for the Civil Service 2000 – 2006 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology 2006 – 2007 | Succeeded byas Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development |
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Preceded by Wong Kin-pan District Council Chairmen | Hong Kong order of precedence Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star | Succeeded by John Estmond Strickland Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star |