Ambrose Lee

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Ambrose Lee Siu Kwong (Chinese: 李少光) IDSM JP is Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and a member of the Executive Council. He was appointed to his post in August 2003, replacing Regina Ip.

[edit] Background

Ambrose Lee is a Social Sciences graduate at The University of Hong Kong. He has also been trained in the Tsinghua University in mainland China, Oxford University in the United Kingdom and Harvard University in the United States.

He joined the civil service as an Immigration Officer in 1974. He became Assistant Director of Immigation in 1995 and was promoted two years later to Deputy Director of Immigration. He served as the Director of Immigration between 1998 and 2002. He was appointed as the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in July, 2002.

Preceded by: Regina Ip

Secretary for Security 2003-

Succeeded by: Incumbent