25 Facts About Selina Chow

Selina Chow was a member of the Legislative Council for nearly three decades, and was a member of the Executive Council.

Selina Chow is honorary chairwoman of the Liberal Party, having formerly been its chairwoman.

Selina Chow went on to executive roles at all three of Hong Kong's major television broadcasting companies: TVB from 1967 to 1977, general manager of Commercial Television from 1977 to 1978 and chief executive of Asia Television from 1988 to 1991.

Selina Chow was first appointed to the Legislative Council in 1981 and the Executive Council in 1991.

Selina Chow was the founding member of the pro-business Liberal Party and the vice-chairwoman from 1998 to 2008.

Selina Chow was appointed to the Executive Council for the second time in 2003.

Selina Chow continued to serve as party chairwoman from 2011 to 2012 and chairwoman from 2012 to 2014.

Selina Chow was educated at St Paul's Co-educational College and earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Hong Kong in 1965.

Selina Chow later obtained a postgraduate diploma from the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and Licentiateship in Drama of the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom.

Selina Chow was an assistant producer at TVB in Broadcast Drive for the English and Chinese channels under general manager Colin Bednall before being promoted to Assistant General Manager to run the entire programming section.

Selina Chow proceeded in the same month to unveil a $233 million six-year investment plan to improve ATV's competitive edge against TVB.

Selina Chow first stepped into politics when she was appointed to the Urban Council in 1980.

Selina Chow was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1981 by Governor Murray MacLehose.

Selina Chow held numerous public offices at the time, including the membership of the Law Reform Commission, the Housing Authority and the Education Commission, a well as the chairmanship of the Consumer Council.

Selina Chow resigned the following year after the arrival of the last Governor Chris Patten who wanted to reshuffle the council.

Selina Chow was a member of the Co-operative Resources Centre headed by Senior Member of the Legislative Council Allen Lee consisting of the appointed members who aimed to counter the rise of the United Democrats of Hong Kong in the legislature after their landslide victory in the first ever direct election in 1991.

Selina Chow was later elected to the Beijing-controlled Provisional Legislative Council after the dismantling of the "through train" of the last colonial Legislative Council.

James Tien succeeded as chairman and Selina Chow became party vice-chairwoman.

Selina Chow has been a board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, honorary adviser to Against Child Abuse, and director of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Society.

In September 2003, Selina Chow was appointed to the Executive Council to fill Tien's vacancy.

Selina Chow won a seat in New Territories West with more than 50,000 votes, more than 10 per cent of the vote share, and was elected with Tien.

Selina Chow blamed the loss of her seat on Heung Yee Kuk chairman and Liberal Party member Lau Wong-fat for canvassing for the DAB candidate Cheung Hok-ming during the elections.

In January 2011, Selina Chow succeeded Tommy Cheung as the vice-chairwoman for the second time.

Selina Chow held the chairmanship for two years until she was succeeded by Felix Chung and became the party honorary chairwoman.

Liang is married to engineer Joseph Selina Chow Ming-kuen, having proposed on the phone when he was in Britain in 1968.