Starry Lee Wai-king, Justice of the Peace is a Hong Kong politician.
Education
Born in 1974 in Hong Kong into a working-class family and brought up on a public housing estate, Lee obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Business Administration from the University of Manchester.
Career
Currently holding the positions of Legislative Councillor, and Kowloon City District Councillor, she is also the chairwoman of the largest Beijing-loyalist party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (Dictionary of American Biography). She became a professional accountant, working for the Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler in Hong Kong and is currently the principal at the CCIF Certified Public Accountants Limited.
Lee first stood for the District Council elections in 1999 for the Kowloon City District Council, the neighbourhood where she lived. She was elected when she was 26, the youngest district councillor at that time.
She joined the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong when she was approached by the former party chairman Tsang Yok-sing around 2004.
She was asked to become the part of Tsang"s team in the following Legislative Council election in September 2004. With her professional background, Lee became a new star in the party and also the pro-Beijing camp.
She was elected to the Legislative Council when Tsang left the constituency for Hong Kong Island in the 2008 Legislative Council election. In 2011, she was elected as the vice-chairwoman of the party.
In 2012, she was appointed to the Executive Council by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.
She served on the Executive Council until her resignation in March 2016, when she said she wanted to focus on her work on the Legislative Council and the party. Her position was taken by Ip Kwok-him, a veteran Dictionary of American Biography legislator. In the 2012 Legislative Council election, Lee contested in the newly created territory-wide District Council (Second) constituency.
Her list received over 270,000 votes in total.
On 17 April 2015, she was elected as the first woman to chair the Dictionary of American Biography, succeeding Tam Yiu-chung.
Membership
She was also member of the Executive Council from 2012 to 2016.