Chan King-ming

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Chan King-ming as the convenor of the Neo Democrats, 2015.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chan.

Chan King-ming
Traditional Chinese	陳竟明
Simplified Chinese	陈竟明
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Jìngmíng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Chan4 Ging2ming4

Chan King-ming was the vice-chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong from 2004-06. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Environmental Science Program of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Academics

Chan King-ming earned his B.Sc and M.Phil degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his PhD degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

He is now Director of the Environmental Science Program in CUHK. He teaches many different courses including Current Environmental Issues, Biochemical Toxicology and Introduction to Environmental Science in the Environmental Science Program and Molecular Endocrinology in the Biochemistry Programme. Trained as a molecular biologist for his PhD and post-doctoral research, Professor Chan's research interests include gene regulation, aquatic toxicology, marine biotechnology and environmental biochemistry and environmental policy. Prof. Chan is also Chairman of CUTA (Chinese University Teachers Association), Trustee of Shaw College Board of Trustees, Members of Assembly of Fellows, Shaw College, and Warden of Hostel 2, Shaw College.

Affiliations

Professor Chan is founding member and now convener of Neo Democrats. He was Part-time member of Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government (2004–06).

He is a current member of the Professional Teachers' Union (HK), Hong Kong Marine Biological Association, Society of Toxicology (SOT) in the USA, American Fisheries Society, American Physiological Society, etc.

He is now Chairman (elected) of the Teachers' Association of Chinese University (2011–12). He also serves as Warden of Student Hostel 2 of Shaw College, Member of the Board of Trustees of Shaw College, and member of the Assembly of Fellows, Shaw College, Chinese University.

Politics

Professor Chan is founding member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as Chairman of the New Territories East Branch in 1999, and later became minister of organization affairs and central committee member of the party. He ran for the chairmanship election in 2004 but lost to Lee Wing-tat. He was then elected vice-chairman of the party.

He ran again for the chairmanship in December 2006, but lost to Albert Ho. He did not ran for the vice-chairmanship in the 2006 election. In 2010, the Democratic Party decided to support the government's proposal of the political reform package to expand the numbers of legislative council members from 30 to 35 in geographical constituency and 30 to 35 of functional constituency by adopting the idea of the so-called super-district councillors which will be voted across the territory after nominations by district councillors. All of the young treks (including Gary Fan and Prof. Chan) believed that such proposal could not provide any significant progress towards democratic development in local political agenda and decided to quit the party.

In December 2010, he quit the party to join the Neo Democrats. Prof. Chan is now convener of the Neo Democrats (2011). The Neo Democrats ran an excellent campaign in the 2011 District Council election and won a total of 8 seats.

References

Party political offices
Preceded by Lee Wing-tat	Vice Chairperson of Democratic Party 2004–2006 Served alongside: Albert Ho	Succeeded by Tik Chi-yuen