Michael Sze
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Michael Sze GBS, CBE, ISO, JP |
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| 施祖祥 | |
| Secretary for Constitutional Affairs | |
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In office 30 October 1991 – 27 January 1994 |
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| Governor | Sir David Wilson Chris Patten |
| Preceded by | Michael Suen |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Ng |
| Secretary for the Civil Service | |
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In office 28 January 1994 – 1996 |
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| Governor | Chris Patten |
| Preceded by | Anson Chan |
| Succeeded by | Lam Woon-kwong |
| Executive Director of the Trade Development Council | |
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In office 1996–2004 |
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| Succeeded by | Fred Lam |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 June 1945 Mainland China |
| Alma mater |
La Salle College University of Hong Kong |
Michael Sze Cho-cheung, GBS, CBE, ISO, JP (Chinese: 施祖祥; born 23 June 1945) is a former Hong Kong government official. He has held various government positions including Secretary for Constitutional Affairs from 1991 to 1994 and Secretary for the Civil Service from 1994 to 1996. He was Executive Director of the Trade Development Council (DTC) from 1996 to 2004 and chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) until 2014.
He was born in Mainland China. He moved to Hong Kong and was educated at the La Salle College and the University of Hong Kong. He joined the Hong Kong government and had served in various bureaux and departments, including Home Affairs Department, Chief Secretariat, Trade Department, Marine Department and Constitutional Affairs Department. During his tenure of District Officer of Kowloon, he proposed compensation to the shoppers who were affected by the construction of the Mass Transit Railway on Nathan Road.
He was appointed Secretary for Constitutional Affairs in 1991. During his service, he was responsible for promoting the constitutional reform package of the last Governor Chris Patten. Despite Patten's constitutional reform package was strongly opposed by the Beijing government, Sze defended the package and therefore was criticised by the Beijing authorities. He was appointed Secretary for the Civil Service in 1994. At the time expatriate civil servants could renew their contracts automatically, which was deemed as unfair to the Chinese civil servants. He abolished the system and implemented the localisation of the civil service on the eve of the handover. From 1992 to 1996, he was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He announced his retirement from the civil service in 1996, right before the handover.
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