Edward Leong
Hong Kong physician, legislator
Edward Leong Che-hung (Chinese: 梁智鴻, born 23 April 1939) is a Hong Kong physician and politician who served as a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012. He previously represented the medical functional constituency in the Legislative Council from 1988 to 2000, and was Chairman of the Council of the University of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2015.
Early life and education
Leong was born in British Hong Kong to a family of doctors in 1939 and spent his childhood in the Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood of Kowloon, growing up in a subdivided flat on Hak Po Street. Leong briefly attended Maryknoll Convent School before switching to St Joseph's College, where he received most of his primary and secondary education before moving to Queen's College for his final year of A-Levels. He subsequently enrolled at the University of Hong Kong, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
Career
Early medical and academic career
Leong became a doctor after graduating, specialising in urology and nephrology. He joined the medical faculty of HKU as a lecturer in the Department of Surgery in 1966, rising to senior lecturer and finally reader when he left the university in 1978. Leong was elected president of the Hong Kong Medical Association in 1988.
Legislative Council
He was elected to represent the medical constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 1988 election, unseating Chiu Hin-kwong. He was successfully re-elected in the 1991 and 1995 elections, and was elected to the provisional Legislative Council by the 400-member Selection Committee in the 1996 election.
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