HKU Conference: The Role of Political Parties in Hong Kong: The Next Ten Years. December 2006

In 2006 the National Democratic Institute (NDI) partnered with the Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) to sponsor the second in a series of events in the NDI’s Developing Political Parties program. In terms of partnerships, the NDI got access to the name, brand and reputation of HKU to ‘legitimize’ their programs, whilst Professor Johannes CHAN continued in his role of powerbroker in Hong Kong politics.

Conference details

Date:  16 December 2006.

Venue: Meng Wah Complex, HKU.

Organiser: CCPL and NDI.

According to the CCPL Annual Report for July 2006 – June 2007, the following persons attended the conference:

Keynote Speaker:

·         Mrs. Anson Chan, Former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong.

Other speakers included

·         Professor Michael Davis, Dept. of Govt and Admin, CUHK; 

·         Dr. Michael de Golyer, Director, Hong Kong Transition Project;

·         Professor Richard Cullen, Faculty of Law, HKU;

·         Legislative Councillor Albert Chan, League of Social Democrats; 

·         Legislative Councillor Albert Ho, Democratic Party;

·         Legislative Councillor Emily Lau, The  Frontier; 

·         Legislative Councillor Ronny Tong, Civic Party;

·         Legislative Councillor Howard Young, Liberal Party;

·         Mr. Stephen Lam, Secretary for Constitutional Affairs; 

·         Professor Anthony Cheung, Exco Member and Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, and Associate Director, Governance in Asia Research Centre, City

·         University of Hong Kong; 

·         The Hon Victor Perton, MP, Member for Doncaster and the liberal Shadow Minister for Conservation and Environment and Innovation and Technology, Victoria, Australia;

·         Ms. Christine Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Civic Exchange; 

·         Mr.  Jose Luis Martin Gascon, Managing Trustee and Former Executive Director, National Institute for Policy Studies (Philippines);

·         Dr. Ray Yep, Research Director, Synergynet;

·         Mr.  Simon Lee, Co­Founder Lion Rock Institute and Editorial Writer for the Apple Daily.

Conference photographs

The following are some of the photographs taken at this conference:

Anson CHAN, Keynote Speaker

Johannes CHAN speaking

Anson CHAN and Johannes CHAN

Professors Michael Davis and Michael DeGolyer

Professor Richard Cullen

Eliza LEE, Professors Davis and DeGolyer

Victor Perton, Australian MP

Steve Vines (moderator) together with Albert CHAN, Albert HO, Emily LAU, Ronnie TONG and Howard YOUNG

Albert CHAN and Emily LAU with NDI(?) Operative

Albert HO with Yash Ghai

Audrey EU

Eric CHEUNG Tat-ming

Chris YEUNG, Francis Moriaty, George Cautherely and others

Steve Vines 

The NDI's Steven TONG (centre), Gordon Davis (?) and ?

Photo Credits

HKU Conferences: The Role of Political Parties in HK: The Next Ten Years. December 2006 

See link: HKU Conference Photos December 2006

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