Edward Yiu Chung-yim is a Hong Kong academic, scholar and former politician who is currently an associate professor of property at the University of Auckland Business School.
10 Facts About Edward Yiu
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Edward Yiu is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong elected in the 2016 Legislative Council election representing the functional constituency of Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape.
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On 14 July 2017, Yiu was disqualified by the court over his manner on oath of office at the inaugural meeting of the Legislative Council on 12 October 2016 as a result of the oath-taking controversy.
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Edward Yiu graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in surveying in 1998 and later earned master's and doctoral degrees from the HKU in 2000 and 2002 respectively.
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Edward Yiu is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and various professional organisations.
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Edward Yiu started teaching as an instructor and lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong in 2002, became an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University and the University of Hong Kong and an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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In 2016, Edward Yiu was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the Legislative Council election through the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency, defeating incumbent Tony Tse Wai-chuen with 43 percent of the 5,735 votes cast, against Tse's 35 percent.
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At the inaugural meeting of the Legislative Council on 12 October 2016, Edward Yiu made the oath taking ceremony as a platform to protest like other pro-democracy and localist legislators.
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Edward Yiu added the words "safeguarding the institutional justice, fighting for universal suffrage, serving for the sustainable development of Hong Kong" in his oath twice and his oaths were invalidated by the clerk.
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Edward Yiu ran again in the March 2018 Kowloon West by-election for the seat left vacant by Yau Wai-ching after defeating Frederick Fung and Ramon Yuen in a three-way primary coordinated by the Power for Democracy.