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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1993

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ANSON CHAN APPOINTED CHIEF SECRETARY

CHAN,

THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY) THAT MRS ANSON CBE, JP, WILL SUCCEED SIR DAVID FORD AS CHIEF SECRETARY ON NOVEMBER 29, 1993.

MRS CHAN HAS VERY WIDE EXPERIENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT. HAVING SERVED IN A VARIETY OF POSTS THROUGHOUT HER CAREER. IN RECENT YEARS SHE HAS BEEN DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES AND, MOST RECENTLY, SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.

SIR DAVID WILL LEAVE HONG KONG ON NOVEMBER 29. AFTER A PERIOD OF LEAVE, HE WILL TAKE OVER AS COMMISSIONER OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON AT THE BEGINNING OF 1994.

THE CURRENT COMMISSIONER, MR JOHN YAXLEY, CBE, JP, IS RETIRING IN LATE NOVEMBER 1993.

COMMENTING ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT, THE GOVERNOR SAID: "HONG KONG A TREMENDOUS DEBT ΤΟ SIR DAVID FORD FOR HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP OVER THE PAST SIX-AND-A-HALF YEARS.

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"HIS ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT TO HONG KONG WAS APPARENT TO ME AS SOON AS I TOOK OFFICE. HE HAS PROVIDED EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP ΤΟ THE CIVIL SERVICE AND DIRECTED THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS MOST EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY. WE SHALL MISS HIM GREATLY.

"AT THE SAME TIME I FOUND A WORTHY SUCCESSOR. HER ALL-ROUND KNOWLEDGE OF THE GOVERNMENT MACHINE, OF THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF HONG KONG AND OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR, AND HER STERLING PERSONAL QUALITIES, MAKE HER THE IDEAL PERSON TO BE CHIEF SECRETARY.

"I LOOK FORWARD ENORMOUSLY TO WORKING WITH HER.

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BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON MRS ANSON CHAN AND SIR DAVID

FORD

ARE:

THE HONOURABLE MRS ANSON CHAN, CBE, JP

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AGED 53. MRS CHAN FIRST JOINED THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE 1962 AND ROSE TO HER PRESENT RANK OF SECRETARY IN 1988. SHE HAS SERVED IN A NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS AND BRANCHES INCLUDING AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, FINANCE BRANCH, THE THEN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, THE THEN NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION AND THE THEN SOCIAL SERVICES BRANCH. SHE WAS DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND LATER DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE DURING THE PERIOD 1979 ΤΟ 1987. MORE RECENTLY, MRS CHAN WAS SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES FROM 1987 то APRIL 1993, WHEN SHE TOOK UP HER PRESENT APPOINTMENT AS SECRETARY THE CIVIL SERVICE.

FOR

/THE HONOURABLE