Yeoh Eng-kiong

Yeoh Eng-kiong OBE, GBS, JP
楊永強
Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of Hong Kong
Preceded by	Himself, as Secretary for Health and Welfare
Succeeded by	York Chow
Preceded by	Lily Yam, as Secretary for Environment and Food

Dr. Yeoh Eng Kiong, OBE, GBS, JP (traditional Chinese: 楊永強; simplified Chinese: 杨永强; pinyin: Yáng Yǒngqiáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iûⁿ Éng-kiông, born 1946 in Ipoh, Malaysia) was the Secretary for Health and Welfare between 1999 and 2002, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food and a member of the Executive Council between 2002 and 2004 in the Hong Kong Government.

Yeoh's father was the late Yeoh Chin Hin, a Malaysian businessman who was a founder and director of Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad.

Yeoh studied medicine at Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong where he was elected President of the Student Union in 1969 and graduated in 1971. He specialised in gastroenterology. In 1979, he became a consultant physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

After a 19-year career at Hong Kong government hospitals, with recognised work in AIDS research, Yeoh became the first Chief Executive of the newly formed Hospital Authority in 1990. In January 1999, He was appointed to the post of Secretary for Health and Welfare (a civil servant position). In 2002, he was appointed as the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food under the new political appointee system.

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