James Tien (politician)

James Tien Pei-chun GBS, OBE, JP
田北俊
James Tien in the 2016 Legislative Council election
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Baggio Leung
Constituency	New Territories East
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2008
Preceded by	Wong Sing-chi
Succeeded by	Wong Sing-chi
In office 28 June 1993 – 30 June 1997
Preceded by	Stephen Cheong
Succeeded by	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
Constituency	Industrial (First)
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2004
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Jeffrey Lam
Constituency	Commercial (First)
In office 12 October 1988 – 22 August 1991
Appointed by	Sir David Wilson
Non-official Member of the Executive Council
In office 1 July 2002 – 6 July 2003
Appointed by	Tung Chee-hwa
Succeeded by	Selina Chow
Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office March 2003 – 29 October 2014
Chairman	Jia Qinglin Yu Zhengsheng
Leader of the Liberal Party
In office 21 May 2013 – 29 October 2014
Chairperson	Selina Chow
Preceded by	New post
Succeeded by	Vincent Fang
Chairman of the Liberal Party
In office 5 December 1998 – 8 September 2008
Preceded by	Allen Lee
Succeeded by	Miriam Lau
Chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board
In office 1 April 2007 – 1 April 2013
Appointed by	Donald Tsang
Preceded by	Selina Chow
Succeeded by	Peter Lam
Personal details
Born	(1947-01-08) 8 January 1947 (age 70) Shanghai, Republic of China
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Mary N. H.
Relations	Michael Tien (brother)
Children	Andrea Calvin
Parents	Francis Tien
Residence	Hong Kong Island
Alma mater	Diocesan Boys' School University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation	Politician, entrepreneur

James Tien Pei-chun, GBS, OBE, JP (born 8 January 1947, Shanghai) is the former Chairman and Leader of the Liberal Party (LP) and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco). Coming from the background of an entrepreneur, he was also a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong (Exco), member of Central and Western and Kwai Tsing District Council and Hong Kong member to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Tien was born in 1947 in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong two years later with his family. His father, Francis Tien, was a successful clothing merchant, owning textile factories in Hong Kong and was appointed member of the Legislative Council and many consultative bodies for the colonial government in the 1960s and 70s. James Tien's younger brother Michael Tien owns the fashion chain G2000 and was chairman of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation before it merged with the Mass Transit Railway Corporation.

He traveled to the United States to study chemical engineering when he was 17 years old and met his wife Mary, a Vietnamese-Chinese, in the college. In 1970, the couple returned to Hong Kong and he worked for his father in the factories.

He was first appointed a District Councilor for Kwai Tsing District in 1985 as a representative of the business sector as his factories were in Kwai Tsing. He was appointed to the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC) which oversaw the drafting of the post-1997 Hong Kong Basic Law in 1985. He was part of the Group of 89, the conservative faction of the Committee members consisting of mostly businessmen and professionals elites.