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Suzanne Wu

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Suzanne Wu
胡穗珊
Chairwoman of the Labour Party
In office
13 December 2015 – 22 August 2017
Preceded byLee Cheuk-yan
Succeeded byKwok Wing-kin
Personal details
Born (1980-11-05) 5 November 1980 (age 43)
Political partyLabour Party (2011–17)
Community March
Alma materHong Kong Polytechnic University
University of Warwick

Suzanne Wu Sui-shan (Chinese: 胡穗珊; born (1980-11-05)5 November 1980) is a Hong Kong politician. She is the former chairwoman of the pro-democratic Labour Party and project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. After leaving Labour in 2017, she co-founded Community March.

Biography

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Wu graduated from the St Stephen's College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in Language, Culture and Communication. She later went to England with a scholarship and studied at the University of Warwick with a master's degree in Gender and International Development.[1]

She once led union members to occupy the vice chancellor’s office at the Polytechnic University to call for higher pay for the cleaning staff when she served as a student union leader at the institution. Their pay eventually was raised from some HK$4,500 to HK$6,000.[2] She had been a director at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), focusing on the interests of cleaning workers and security guards, and is also a project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism, advocating gender equality. She is also a founding member of the Labour Party. On 13 December 2015, she replaced Lee Cheuk-yan as the chairwoman of the Labour Party after defeating two other candidates with about 60% support.[1] On 23 August 2017, she resigned from the chair and withdrew from the Labour Party. Subsequently she co-founded Community March.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "工黨換班 女將胡穗珊任主席". Ming Pao. 13 December 2015.
  2. ^ Lam, Jeffie (16 December 2015). "New Hong Kong Labour Party leader urges equality for women in politics and better policies for caregivers". South China Morning Post.
  3. ^ "新地區組織「社區前進」誕生 劍指2019年區會選舉". Apple Daily 蘋果日報. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
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Party political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of the Labour Party
2015–2017
Succeeded by
Chiu Shi-shun
(acting)
Political offices
Preceded by Member of Yau Tsim Mong District Council
Representative for Yau Ma Tei South
2020–2021
Vacant