34 Facts About Regina Ip

Regina Ip is currently the Convenor of the Executive Council and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, as well as the founder and current chairperson of the New People's Party.

Regina Ip was formerly a prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and was the first woman to be appointed the Secretary for Security to head the disciplinary service.

Regina Ip is the founder and Chairwoman of Savantas Policy Institute, a think-tank in Hong Kong.

Regina Ip took a sabbatical to study for a master's degree.

Regina Ip contested the 2007 Hong Kong Island by-election for the Legislative Council but was defeated by Anson Chan in the two-horse race.

Regina Ip ran again in the 2008 Legislative Council election and won, gaining a seat in the Hong Kong Island.

Regina Ip was re-elected in the 2012 and 2016 elections.

Regina Ip ran in both 2012 and 2017 Chief Executive elections but did not secure a minimum number of 150 nominations from the 1,200-member Election Committee to enter the race on both occasions.

Regina Ip attended St Stephen's Girls' College, after which she read English literature at the University of Hong Kong, graduating with first-class honours; she later obtained a Master of Letters degree from the University of Glasgow, where she studied Elizabethan poet, Sir Philip Sidney.

Regina Ip took various bureaucratic positions before she was appointed Director of Industry Department in September 1995.

Regina Ip was the first woman to hold the post, and continued until after the 1997 handover.

Regina Ip was head of immigration during the right of abode saga, when the Hong Kong government requested the National People's Congress in Beijing to intervene after the courts ruled against the government, essentially granting the Hong Kong government the ability to simply ignore the court's ruling after it granted right of abode to the children of Hong Kong residents who held right of abode whether or not those children were born in Hong Kong.

Regina Ip became the first government minister to "declare her political stance".

Regina Ip was well known at that time as a hawkish, uncompromising figure in the Government, with some describing her as "a staunch, arrogant, authoritarian and yet outspoken bureaucrat".

Regina Ip set up a policy think tank, Savantas Policy Institute, giving rise to media speculation that she was planning to run for the office of Chief Executive sometime in the future.

Regina Ip apologised for her handling of the Article 23 situation, hoped to put it behind her.

Regina Ip's ticket won a total of 61,073 votes, the second highest on Hong Kong Island and the fourth highest Hong Kong wide.

Regina Ip was sworn in as Legislative Councillor on 8 October 2008.

Regina Ip was appointed to the Executive Council of Hong Kong by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying after the election, in which she served until December 2016 when she ran for the Chief Executive for the second time.

Regina Ip's party expanded its district base when it allied with the Civil Force in 2014.

Regina Ip expressed her intention to run in the 2012 election but dropped out on 15 December.

Regina Ip called for a relaunch of the electoral reform process under Beijing's restrictive framework as decreed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on 31 August 2020.

Regina Ip pledged to enact controversial Article 23 with "suitable measures".

Regina Ip urged "a certain candidate" not to ask for additional backing since that person had secured more than enough nominations already.

Regina Ip received the number of nominations "far behind what was needed".

Regina Ip attributed her failure to the restrictive selection process of the 1,200 structure of the Election Committee membership as she was "squeezed out" by the Beijing-supported Lam and democrats-supported Tsang and Woo.

Regina Ip spearheaded the government's attempt to codify Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, and pushed hard for it to be legislated by July 2003.

Regina Ip's popularity plummeted when one remark after another contradicted popular opinion, most notably in regard to her commitment to push the bill despite the commotion and chaos of the SARS outbreak in 2003.

Regina Ip openly admitted that although she disliked the nickname, she would not change her hairstyle just to please her critics.

Regina Ip apologised to those who were offended by her and insisted that the article was misinterpreted.

Regina Ip told Ming Pao that she was not in the car and she was sending some books she wrote to her friends there.

Regina Ip later admitted that she lied about it as she was requested by the other party to keep the visit confidential.

Regina Ip was criticised as the pan-democrats had been accusing the Liaison Office for meddling in local politics and elections.

Regina Ip apologised to the public and Ming Pao and denied that she was there for thanking the Liaison Office for its support.