Benny Tai

Benny Tai Yiu-ting 戴耀廷 MH
Benny Tai Yiu-ting at an Occupy Central seminar, 7 January 2013
Native name	戴耀廷
Born	1964 (age 52–53) Hong Kong
Nationality	Hong Kong Chinese
Alma mater	Diocesan Boys' School University of Hong Kong London School of Economics
Occupation	Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong
Known for	Proposer of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace Campaign

Benny Tai Yiu-ting (Chinese: 戴耀廷; born 1964), MH, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong who received widespread media attention in January 2013, when he initiated the Occupy Central with Love and Peace campaign for universal suffrage in the 2017 Chief Executive election and 2020 Legislative Council Elections.

Besides initiating the Occupy Central campaign, Tai is also currently a member of the Panel of Advisers of the Office of the Ombudsman.

Tai was born in Hong Kong in 1964 and graduated from Diocesan Boys' School in 1981. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong and obtained his LL.B. in 1986 and P.C.LL. in 1987.

Tai became a professor Law at the University of Hong Kong in 1991, and he was the Associate Dean of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law from 2000 to 2008.

As a result of the Occupy Central campaign, Tai has been accused by members of the pro-Beijing camp, including Legislative Councilor Priscilla Leung, of violating the code of conduct of a legal scholar by calling upon people to intentionally violate the law. In response to this allegation, Tai replied that Occupy Central is a form of civil disobedience, and that civil disobedience does not violate the rule of law. Despite this reply, Tai still received widespread criticism from the pro-Beijing camp, and even received death threats as a result of the Occupy Central Movement.