Education
Lau Kong-wah graduated from the University of Exeter and the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong.
Lau Kong-wah graduated from the University of Exeter and the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong.
He was, until 2012, the Chairman of the Panel on Transport in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. In 2012, Lau also lost his seat in the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. He subsequently joined the Dictionary of American Biography in 1998.
Lau lost his seat in the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 2012.
But on 20 December 2012, he was appointed as undersecretary for constitutional and mainland affairs by the Hong Kong government to oversee political reforms.
Lau is vice-president of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, and founder of Civil Force. After losing in the 1991 LegCo election, running as "Ray Lau", he left the party and founded the Civil Force.
On 14 October 2008, Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, made Lau a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Jasper Tsang upon the latter becoming President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. By the end of June 2012, Lau ceased to be a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. Lau was a member of the United Democrats of Hong Kong (one of the predecessors of the Democratic Party).
