Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development heads the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Government. The Secretary is responsible for promoting commerce and the economic development of Hong Kong. The position was created in 2007 by merging the previous portfolios of the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology and the Secretary for Economic Development and Labour.

The predecessor, Secretary for Trade and Industry (Template:Zh), was the head of the Trade and Industry Branch, and later the Trade and Industry Bureau, responsible for securing Hong Kong's access to the world market, helping Hong Kong manufacturers remain competitive in international markets, enhancing the protection of intellectual property rights, and promoting Hong Kong customers' interests. It was renamed and re-organised as the Secretary for Commerce and Industry in 2000, and replaced by the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology (Template:Zh) in 2002, with new responsibilities of technology sectors after merging with Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting.

List of office holders

Secretaries for Trade and Industry, 1982–1997

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1	File:No image.svg	William Dorward	August 1982	February 1983	Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
2	File:No image.svg	Eric Peter Ho	February 1983	1987
					Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)
3	File:No image.svg	Hamish Macleod	1987	1989
4	File:No image.svg	John Chan	1989	1991
5	File:No image.svg	Brian Chau	20 May 1991	November 1995
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)
6	File:No image.svg	Denise Yue	November 1995	30 June 1997

Secretaries for Trade and Industry, 1997–2000

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 1	File:No image.svg	Denise Yue Chung-yee	1 July 1997	30 March 1998	Template:Age in years and days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 2	File:No image.svg	Brian Chau Tak-hay	31 March 1998	30 June 2000	Template:Age in years and days

Secretaries for Commerce and Industry, 2000–2002

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 1	File:No image.svg	Brian Chau Tak-hay	1 July 2000	30 June 2002	Template:Age in years and days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1

Secretaries for Commerce, Industry and Technology, 2002–2007

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" align="center" | 1	File:No image.svg	Henry Tang Ying-yen	1 July 2002	3 August 2003	Template:Age in years and days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	2
		John Tsang Chun-wah	4 August 2003	24 January 2006	Template:Age in years and days
						Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2
		Joseph Wong Wing-ping	24 January 2006	30 June 2007	Template:Age in years and days

Secretaries for Commerce and Economic Development, 2007–present

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No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 1	File:Frederick Ma.JPG	Frederick Ma Si-hang	1 July 2007	11 July 2008	Template:Age in years and days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	3
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 2	File:Rita Lau.jpg	Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan	12 July 2008	13 April 2011	Template:Age in years and days
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 3	File:Gregory So (cropped).jpg	Gregory So Kam-leung	28 June 2011	30 June 2017	Template:Age in years and days
Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)						4
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 4	File:Edward Yau.jpg	Edward Yau Tang-wah	1 July 2017	30 June 2022	Template:Age in years and days	Carrie Lam (2017–2022)	5
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 5	File:丘應樺 20230710 (cropped).jpg	Algernon Yau Ying-wah	1 July 2022	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	John Lee (2022–present)	6

External links

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• Organisation chart of Hong Kong Government