Ip Kwok-him, GBM, GBS, JP is a former unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, served between 2016 and 2022.
18 Facts About Ip Kwok-him
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Ip Kwok-him is former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the District Council functional constituency and Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress and the former convenor of the caucus of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong in the Legislative Council.
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Ip Kwok-him was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.
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Ip Kwok-him's father came from Guangzhou before the Chinese Communist Party took over.
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Ip Kwok-him studied at the Hon Wah College, a leftist pro-Communist school in the Western District.
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Ip Kwok-him later graduated from the South China Normal University with a degree in Bachelor of Art in Geography.
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Ip Kwok-him became active in local politics in the mid-1980s when he became vice chairman of a research centre for the development of the Central and Western District, a supplementary member of the Central and Western District Board.
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Ip Kwok-him co-founded the working committee on concerning the Hong Kong Basic Law with Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen, the chairman of the Central and Western District Board.
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Ip Kwok-him was elected with incumbent Chan Tak-chor, receiving 2,942 votes and defeating incumbent Wong Sui-lai of the pro-democratic United Democrats of Hong Kong.
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Ip Kwok-him won back the seat in Kwun Lung in 2007 and held the seat until he stepped down in 2015.
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Ip Kwok-him became a founding member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, a flagship pro-Beijing party set up by a group of traditional leftists in 1992.
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Ip Kwok-him was a long-time chairman of the party, serving from 1998 to 2009.
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Ip Kwok-him was first elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the last colonial legislative election in 1995 through the ten-seat Election Committee consisting of all District Board members.
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Ip Kwok-him returned to the Legislative Council in 2000 when he was elected through the newly created in District Council constituency which was elected by all District Councillors.
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Ip Kwok-him returned to the Legislative Council through the same constituency in 2008 and has held the seat since then.
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Ip Kwok-him stepped down from the Legislative Council in 2016 and was succeeded by Lau Kwok-fan.
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Ip Kwok-him is a Hong Kong deputy to the China's National People's Congress.
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Ip Kwok-him's twin brother, Ip Kwok-chung, is a former member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong and the Yau Tsim Mong District Council.