Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, BBS

Bronze Bauhinia Star

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, JP

Justice of the Peace

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  is the current President

President

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 of the Hong Kong Institute of Education

Hong Kong Institute of Education

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He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

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 and a vice-chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong. He is at present a non-official

Official

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 member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

Executive Council of Hong Kong

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. He is the only member with a pro-democracy camp

Pro-democracy camp

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 background in the council.

Cheung founded SynergyNet, a policy think tank, and provides public comment on policy issues. In 2011, he called for a separate regulatory code for the emerging class of political assistants and policy advisers, who are between civil servants and executive officials.

At present, Cheung also serves as the chairman of both the Hong Kong Consumer Council and the Subsidised Housing Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority

Hong Kong Housing Authority

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Education

Cheung is a gradudate of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong

Wah Yan College, Hong Kong

Wah Yan College, Hong Kong is an eminent grant-in-aid secondary school in Hong Kong. It was founded on 16 December 1919, by Tsui Yan Sau Peter . It is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus...

, a prestigious all male Roman Catholic Jesuit school in Hong Kong. He has a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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, an MSc in Public Sector Management from Aston University

Aston University

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 and a BSocSc in Sociology

Sociology

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 and Economics

Economics

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 from the University of Hong Kong (1974).