Stanley Ng (town planner)

Stanley Ng Wing-fai
吳永輝
Chairman of the Professional Commons
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2015
Preceded by	Charles Mok
Member of the Urban Council
In office May 1995 – December 1999
Constituency	Mong Kok
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 54–55) British Hong Kong
Political party	Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	Professional Commons
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BSc) University of Hong Kong (MSc)
Occupation	Politician Town planner

Stanley Ng Wing-fai (Chinese: 吳永輝; born 1961) is a Hong Kong town planner and politician. He is currently the Executive Committee member of the Democratic Party and the Chairman of the Professional Commons.

Education and business career

Born in 1961 in Hong Kong, Ng studied at the Pui Ching Middle School, and received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1983 and a master's degree in Urban Planning from the University of Hong Kong in 1991. He became a licensed Town Planner both in China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He is member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Hong Kong Institute of Planners.

He is the founder and CEO of "MapAsia" and "MapKing", and running MapKing International, an international mobile technology and mapping firm in Asia. He is also a publisher of the World and China Press Limited.^[1]

Political career

He first ran for office in the Yau Tsim Mong District Board in the 1994 District Board elections where he won a seat in Mong Kok North for the Democratic Party. In the 1999 election, he changed his constituency to Tai Nan but was defeated. He ran in Hok Yuen Laguna Verde in the Kowloon City District in the 2003 District Council election but was defeated by incumbent Siu Yuen-sheung of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong Progressive Alliance.

He was also among the last members of the Urban Council elected in the 1995 election through Mong Kok. He continued to serve on the Provisional Urban Council after the handover in 1997 until the council was abolished by the then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in 2000.^[2]

In 2004, 2008 and 2012, he contested in the Architectural, Surveying and Planning functional constituency which has restricted electorates and was all unelected.

He has also been elected to the Election Committee which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive since 2006, through the Architectural, Surveying and Planning sub-sector.^[3]

He has been member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party, a pro-democratic party in Hong Kong. He had also served as Treasurer of the party. In the 2014 party leadership election, he ran against incumbent chairwoman Emily Lau but was not elected.

He was a Vice Chairman of the pro-democracy think tank Professional Commons until he became the Chairman in November 2015.^[1]

References

1. "Stanley Wing Fai Ng吳永輝". Linkedin.
2. "Hong Kong Year Book 1998". Hong Kong Government.
3. "2006 Election Committee Subsector Elections". Electoral Affairs Commission.