Regina Ip

Quick Facts

Full Name	Regina Ip
Occupation	Politician Employer Hong Kong Civil Servant
Date Of Birth	Aug 24, 1950(1950-08-24)
Age	74
Country	Hong Kong
Horoscope	Leo

Regina Ip Biography

Regina Ip is one of the most popular and richest Politician Employer Hong Kong Civil Servant who was born on August 24, 1950 in Hong Kong. Ip married Sammy Ip Manho (1935-1997) in 1981. Sammy Ip was the son of Ip Chingping, founder and CEO of the Ching Hing Construction Company. Sammy Ip had a sister, Henrietta Ip, who was a member the Legislative Council (1982-1991). Sammy Ip’s family opposed their marriage. Cynthia Ip Wingyan, a daughter of the couple, was born in 1989. Regina Ip lost her husband to liver cancer in 1997.

She was named Director of Immigration in August 1996. This position is usually held by staff from the Immigration Department. She was the first woman to be appointed Director of Immigration. This post was held until 1997. She held the post until 1997 when the UK government granted full British citizenship to 50,000 Hong Kong families. The UK government also acted as head of immigration in the right to abode saga. This was when the Hong Kong government asked the National People’s Congress to intervene in the case against the government. It gave the Hong Kong government the power to ignore the court’s decision after it granted right to abode to children of Hong Kong residents, regardless of whether those children were born there.

In July 1998, Ip was appointed to the post of Secretary for Security – again, the first woman to hold that post – and became one of the so-called 14 principal officials and a member of the Executive Council during Tung Chee- hwa’s second term in government on 1 July 2002. She was well known at that time as a hawkish, uncompromising figure in the Government, with some describing her as “a staunch, arrogant, authoritarian and yet outspoken bureaucrat.” As security minister, she promoted the adoption of the controversial Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law. After massive public protests and the government’s withdrawal of the proposed national security legislation, Ip resigned from office on 25 June 2003, citing personal reasons.

Ip downplayed any opposition to the bill, predicting only 30,000 people would show up at the planned demonstration(s). Ip blamed political and religious leaders for creating a “herd mentality”. Her popularity plummeted when one remark after another contradicted popular opinion, most notably in regard to her commitment to push the bill despite the commotion and chaos of the SARS outbreak in 2003. Concerned by the government’s determination to force through the bill, up to 500,000 people marched to protest on 1 July 2003.

Ip was an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Government during the 1970s. She and her husband went to Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1986 to pursue a Sloan Programme MS in Management. Before she was named Director of Industry Department in September 1995, she held various administrative positions.

Regina Ip Net Worth

Regina Ip is one of the richest Politician Employer Hong Kong Civil Servant from Hong Kong. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Regina Ip 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ip was born in British Hong Kong in 1950. Her father was a Chinese Singaporean trader Lau Fookseng and her mother was Wa Choi Fung (Hua Cai Feng ), her second wife. After attending St. Stephen’s Girls College, she read English literature at University of Hong Kong and graduated with first-class honours. She later received a Master of Letters from University of Glasgow where she studied Sir Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet.

Regina Ip Lau Sukyee (GBS, JP; Chinese: Xie Shu Yi ; 24 August 1950) is a member of both the Executive Council (ExCo), and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. She is also the founder and current chairperson of The New People’s Party. She was an ex-highly respected government official in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, (HKSAR), and was the first woman appointed Secretary for Security to lead the disciplinary service.

Ip has taken controversial stances during her career including advocating for the Public Order Ordinance and defending government policy denying right of abode to the children of Hong Kong people born in mainland China since the 1997 handover.

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Who is Regina Ip Dating?

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In July 2008, Ip was once again embroiled in controversy for her comments about police tactics used against reporters covering the heated scenes in queues for Olympics tickets. In commenting about the man-handling of Hong Kong reporters by the Beijing police, she had said that “neck-shoving [techniques]… were most effective in stopping trouble-makers”. The following day, she stated that she supported freedom of the press and apologised for the “slip of the tongue”, clarifying that she was neither implying that journalists were troublemakers, nor endorsing the actions of the police. Democratic Party lawmaker Yeung Sum said this Freudian slip showed up her true colours.

Facts & Trivia

Regina Ranked on the list of most popular Politician Employer Hong Kong Civil Servant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hong Kong. Regina Ip celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.

In January 2011, she launched a middle-class oriented party called New People’s Party. The party held two seats in the legislature, herself and Michael Tien, after the 2012 Legislative council election, in which Ip was elected with 30,289 votes, despite losing almost half of the votes. She was subsequently appointed to the Executive Council of Hong Kong by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying after the election, in which she served until December 2016 when she ran for the Chief Executive for the second time. Her party expanded its district base when it allied with the Civil Force in 2014. Ip was re-elected to the Legislative Council in 2016, with the highest votes of 60,760 in Hong Kong Island.

Top Facts about Regina Ip

1. Regina Ip is a Hong Kong politician and former civil servant.
2. She served as the Secretary for Security from 1998-2003.
3. In 2003, she proposed controversial national security legislation.
4. The proposal sparked massive protests and was eventually withdrawn.
5. Ip founded the New People’s Party in 2011.
6. She has been a member of the Legislative Council since 2008.
7. Ip ran for Chief Executive in 2017 but lost to Carrie Lam.
8. She supports closer ties with mainland China and opposes independence movements.
9. Ip has faced criticism for her pro-Beijing stance and lack of support for democracy.
10. She is known for her tough stance on crime and immigration policies.