Dr Sarah Mary Liao Sau-tung, GBS, MBE, JP, FRSC was born on 25 December 1951 and was former Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong since 2002.
15 Facts About Sarah Liao
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Sarah Liao was appointed on 1 August 2002 and served until 2007.
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Sarah Liao is a Senior Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong on Environmental and Sustainability Matters.
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Sarah Mary Liao graduated from the Diocesan Girls' School and earned her bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctorate from the University of Hong Kong.
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Sarah Liao was awarded a master's degree by the University of Birmingham.
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Sarah Liao's brother is Dr York Liao, a prominent Hong Kong businessman and councillor.
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Sarah Liao is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Honorary Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.
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In 1988 Sarah Liao founded EHS Consultants Limited which provided a range of environmental services requiring specialist expertise.
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Sarah Liao was a member of the bidding committee to represent Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Bidding conference in Moscow on 13 July 2001.
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Sarah Liao was named Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works in August 2002 as part of Tung Chee Hwa's Principal Officials Accountability System.
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Sarah Liao tackled air pollution head-on by the imposition of emission caps on power stations, and worked with Guangdong to successfully institutionalise emission trading and setting up the first regional air monitoring network.
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Sarah Liao implemented the polluters- pay- principle in both solid waste and wastewater, produced a 10-year framework for waste management, encouraged private-public partnerships for private lands to conserve nature while greening of the urban areas was systematically carried out under a territory-wide master plan.
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Sarah Liao commissioned and implemented the public transportation fare adjustment scheme to help lift the objectivity and transparency of bus fare adjustments.
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Sarah Liao has consistently achieved high approval rates in public opinion polls.
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Sarah Liao is a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, an Environmental Adviser to the Shanghai Municipal Government on the Shanghai World Expo 2010, a Senior Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong on Environmental and Sustainability Matters, a trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Environmental Defense Fund, and a member of the School Council of the St Stephen's Girls' College of Hong Kong.