Education
Carleton University.
Carleton University.
Mo is a former journalist, having worked at Agence France-Presse, The Standard and TVB. She also hosted a number of RTHK television and radio programmes, including "Media Watch" and "City Forum". Mo wrote a book called "We Want True Democracy" published in 2015, and has also authored English language learning books Mo was born in Hong Kong and has family roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Mo is married to journalist Philip Bowring, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and they have two sons.
She is also known as Claudia Bowring. She attended high school in Toronto, and in 1979 graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a Bachelor"s degree in journalism with English studies.
After graduating she worked at Agence France-Presse (AFP) translating French wires into Chinese. She was later promoted to chief Hong Kong correspondent for AFP, covering in this role the Tiananmen Square massacre, an event which she describes as a "watershed that cemented my journalistic principles and political beliefs".
News at 6:30 – TVB, 1982-1985
Media Watch – RTHK, 1991–2008
City Forum – RTHK, 1993-1995
All-Primary Schools Inter-school Quiz – RTHK, 1992-1994
We"re All Parents – Cable Television.
She is a member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency. She is a founding member of the Civic Party, which she represented, unsuccessfully, in the Kowloon West geographical constituency in the 2008 Legislative Council election.
