Fernando Chui
| Fernando Chui Chui Sai On |
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| 崔世安 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2nd Chief Executive of Macau | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Assumed office 20 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Edmund Ho Hau Wah | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Macau Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture |
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In office 20 December 1999 – 20 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by |
Antonio Salavessa da Costa as Secretary for Communications, Tourism and Culture of Macau; Alarcão Troni as Secretary for Social Affairs and Budget of Macau |
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| Succeeded by | Cheong U | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 January 1957 Portuguese Macau |
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| Nationality | Macau, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Winnie Fok Wai-fun | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Macau | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | California State University, University of Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Civil servant | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 崔世安 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cuī Shì'ān |
| Wade–Giles | Tsui Shih'an |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Cuēi Shìh'ān |
| Yale Romanization | Tswēi Shr̀'ān |
| IPA | [tsʰwéi ʂɻ̩̂ˈán] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chēui Sái Ōn |
| IPA | [tsʰɵ́y sɐ̄iʔɔ́ːn] |
| Jyutping | Ceoi1 Sai3 On1 |
Fernando Chui Sai On (Chinese: 崔世安; pinyin: Cuī Shì'ān; born 13 January 1957) is the current Chief Executive of Macau, he was the Secretary for Social and Cultural Affairs from 1999 to 2009.
Chui was born in 1957 to local construction tycoon Chui Tak Seng and Chan Keng Fan, the second son after Chui Sai Cheong. His wife is a niece of the late Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung.
In Macau, Chui attended Lingnan High School and then finished high school at Hawaiian Mission Academy in Honolulu before pursuing his post-secondary education. Chui obtained his university training in the United States where he obtained his various degrees:
He was guest professor at the Huanan Teachers Training University.
Due to studying in the United States at a younger age, Chui did not have the opportunity to study Mandarin, and thus does not speak it well. This was evident when he made his oath of acceptance as the Chief Executive of Macao in front of President Hu Jintao.
Prior to his current position, Chui served as a member of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Macau Government.
In June 2009 Chui declared himself the sole candidate for Macau's chief executive election. He was nominated by 286 members of the 300-member election committee. On election day, 26 July, 282 committee members voted for Chui (14 blank, 4 abstention). He assumed his new role as Chief Executive of Macau in December 2009.
Chui is also involved in youth and education causes including:
Chui has been linked to several scandals during his time as a minister of Edmund Ho's administration.
Most notably, the East Asian Games in 2005 were run under Chui's portfolio and put him in the midst of the Ao Man Long scandal. The games ran over budget by 70%. Ao allegedly received a MOP50 million (US$6.2 million) bribe in connection with the construction contract for the games' centerpiece, the Macau Dome indoor arena. Overall, that project wound up costing MOP640 million, MOP285 million over budget. As a result, he was extremely unpopular amongst the pro-democracy camp even before he was elected as the chief executive. In 2016, Chui was caught up in allegations of transferring Macau's reserves to the mainland. He was accused of favouritism after the Macau Foundation – a quasi-official foundation of which he is chairman and of which his brother heads the supervisory board – donated 100 million yuan ($15.4 million) of public money to Jinan University in Guangzhou, of which he is deputy head of the board. The Macanese government said that the donation was made in return for China’s long-standing support to the SAR.
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