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GIS PRESS ENQUIRIES
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GIS
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1993
CBE,
ANSON CHAN APPOINTED CHIEF SECRETARY
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THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY) THAT MRS ANSON JP, WILL SUCCEED SIR DAVID FORD AS CHIEF SECRETARY
29, 1993.
MRS CHAN HAS VERY WIDE EXPERIENCE IN THE SERVED IN A VARIETY OF POSTS THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, SHE HAS BEEN DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SECRETARY SERVICES AND, MOST RECENTLY, SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.
CHAN,
ON NOVEMBER
GOVERNMENT HAVING IN RECENT YEARS FOR ECONOMIC
AFTER A PERIOD HONG KONG
RETIRING
SIR DAVID WILL LEAVE HONG KONG ON NOVEMBER 29. LEAVE, HE WILL TAKE OVER AS COMMISSIONER OF THE GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON AT THE BEGINNING OF 1994.
OF
THE CURRENT COMMISSIONER, MR JOHN YAXLEY, CBE, JP, IS IN LATE NOVEMBER 1993.
KONG
COMMENTING ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT, THE GOVERNOR SAID: "HONG OWES A TREMENDOUS DEBT TO SIR DAVID FORD FOR LEADERSHIP OVER THE PAST SIX-AND-A-HALF YEARS.
HIS OUTSTANDING
SOON CIVIL
"HIS ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT TO HONG KONG WAS APPARENT TO AS I TOOK OFFICE. HE HAS PROVIDED EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP
SERVICE AND DIRECTED THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS MOST AND EFFICIENTLY. WE SHALL MISS HIM GREATLY.
ME
AS
TO EFFECTIVELY
THE
"AT THE SAME TIME I FOUND A WORTHY SUCCESSOR. KNOWLEDGE OF THE GOVERNMENT MACHINE, OF THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF HONG KONG AND OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR, AND HER STERLING PERSONAL QUALITIES, HER THE IDEAL PERSON TO BE CHIEF SECRETARY.
MAKE
HER ALL-ROUND
"I LOOK FORWARD ENORMOUSLY TO WORKING WITH HER.
BRIEF
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON MRS ANSON CHAN AND SIR DAVID
FORD
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