Cyd Ho

Cyd Ho Sau-lan
何秀蘭
Ho campaigning for the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election.
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2016
Preceded by	Rita Fan
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Constituency	Hong Kong Island
In office 1 October 2000 – 30 September 2004
Preceded by	Christine Loh
Succeeded by	Ma Lik
Constituency	Hong Kong Island
In office 1 July 1998 – 30 June 2000
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Wong Sing-chi
Constituency	New Territories East
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-24) 24 July 1954 (age 62) Hong Kong
Political party	The Frontier (1996–2003) Civic Act-up (2003–2012) Labour Party (2012–)
Alma mater	University of Waterloo
Occupation	Legislative Councillor

Cyd Ho Sau-lan (Chinese: 何秀蘭) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco) for the Hong Kong Island constituency.

She is a founding member of the Labour Party, since December 2011, and currently holds the position of vice-chairwoman. Previously, she was a founding member of The Frontier, another pro-democracy political group. Since 2006, she has been a founding councillor of the World Future Council.

She has garnered a reputation for promoting universal suffrage, rule of law, human rights, and equal opportunity, as well as advancement in the interests of women, homosexuals and other minority groups.

Ho studied at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She worked in the textile trading industry from 1979 to 1995.

In 1991, Ho helped Emily Lau during the election campaign, the first open direct election of Legco in Hong Kong. In 1993, she founded the liberal pressure group "United Ants" with other pro-democracy political activists. In 1995, she worked as an assistant to Margaret Ng, a lawmaker representing the legal profession in Legco. In 1996, along with other political activists, she founded The Frontier.

She was elected a legislative councillor for the geographical constituency of New Territories East in 1998 in the first Legco election since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the UK to China. She was re-elected in the c in 2000. She chaired bills committees such as the 2004 Education (Revised) Bill and the 2004 Examination Authority Bill, and was vice-chair of the panel on environmental affairs. She chaired the Sub-committee under the Home Affair Panel to study questions of discrimination based on sexual orientation between 2000 and 2004.