Ambrose Lee

Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong
李少光
Secretary for Security
In office 4 August 2003 – 30 June 2012
Chief Executive	Tung Chee-hwa Sir Donald Tsang
Chief Secretary	Sir Donald Tsang Michael Suen Rafael Hui Henry Tang
Undersecretary	Lai Tung-kwok
Permanent Secretary	Chang King-yiu
Political Assistant	Victor Lo
Preceded by	Regina Ip
Succeeded by	Lai Tung-kwok
Commissioner of the ICAC
In office 1 July 2002 – 4 August 2003
Preceded by	Alan Lai
Succeeded by	Raymond Wong
Director of Immigration
In office 1998–2002
Preceded by	Regina Ip
Succeeded by	Lai Tung-kwok
Personal details
Born	August 17, 1948
Children	Glen Lee
Alma mater	Kowloon Technical School University of Hong Kong

Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong (Chinese: 李少光) IDSM JP was Secretary for Security of Hong Kong and a member of the Executive Council. He was appointed to his post on 4 August 2003, replacing Regina Ip.^[1]

Background

Ambrose Lee graduated in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. He has also studied at Tsinghua, Oxford and Harvard universities.

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

References

1. New security chief vows to listen to community Hong Kong govt. press release.