The Honourable
Carmen Kan
簡慧敏
Kan in 2023
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 January 2022
Preceded byConstituency created
ConstituencyElection Committee
Personal details
Alma materUniversity of Hong Kong (LLB)
Tsinghua University (MPA)

Carmen Kan Wai-mun (Chinese: 簡慧敏) is a Hong Kong solicitor, lawmaker, and member of the Legislative Council serving as Vice-Chair on the Panel on Security. She is currently the deputy convenor of the G19, a non-partisan group of legislators. In addition, she is the Vice-President of the Hong Kong-China Women's Federation Delegation and the Vice-President of the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers.

She belongs to the Election Committee constituency which was newly created under electoral changes in 2021. As a former partner of Clifford Chance from 2001 and 2010,[1] currently the General Legal Counsel of the Bank of China Corporation, Kan specialises in corporate and banking law across Hong Kong and Mainland jurisdictions.

Kan currently serves in the Legislative Council's Finance Committee, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Members' Interests, Committee on Rules of Procedure, and House Committee.

She is currently the Vice-Chairperson of the Panel on Security (SE). She also sits on the Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services (AJLS), Panel on Constitutional Affairs (CA), Panel on Environmental Affairs (EA), and Panel on Financial Affairs (FA).

In November 2023, she was part of a group of lawmakers who said that the 2023 Gay Games may infringe on the national security law.[2]

Electoral history

2021 legislative election: Election Committee[3]
No. Candidates Affiliation Votes  %
1 Luk Chung-hung FTU 1,178
2 Ma Fung-kwok New Forum 1,234
3 Kingsley Wong Kwok FTU 1,192
4 Chan Hoi-yan Nonpartisan 1,292
5 Tang Fei FEW 1,339
6 Michael John Treloar Rowse Nonpartisan 454
7 Paul Tse Wai-chun Independent 1,283
8 Diu Sing-hung Nonpartisan 342
9 Tseng Chin-i Nonpartisan 919
10 Nelson Lam Chi-yuen Nonpartisan 970
11 Peter Douglas Koon Ho-ming Nonpartisan 1,102
12 Andrew Lam Siu-lo Nonpartisan 1,026
13 Chow Man-kong Nonpartisan 1,060
14 Doreen Kong Yuk-foon Nonpartisan 1,032
15 Fung Wai-kwong Nonpartisan 708
16 Chan Yuet-ming Nonpartisan 1,187
17 Simon Hoey Lee Nonpartisan 1,308
18 Judy Kapui Chan NPP 1,284
19 Wong Chi-him Nonpartisan 956
20 Maggie Chan Man-ki Nonpartisan 1,331
21 So Cheung-wing Nonpartisan 1,013
22 Sun Dong Nonpartisan 1,124
23 Tu Hai-ming Nonpartisan 834
24 Tan Yueheng Nonpartisan 1,245
25 Ng Kit-chong Nonpartisan 1,239
26 Chan Siu-hung Nonpartisan 1,239
27 Hong Wen Nonpartisan 1,142
28 Dennis Lam Shun-chiu Nonpartisan 1,157
29 Rock Chen Chung-nin DAB 1,297
30 Yung Hoi-yan NPP/CF 1,313
31 Chan Pui-leung Nonpartisan 1,205
32 Lau Chi-pang Nonpartisan 1,214
33 Carmen Kan Wai-mun Nonpartisan 1,291
34 Nixie Lam Lam DAB 1,181
35 Luk Hon-man BPA 1,059
36 Elizabeth Quat DAB 1,322
37 Lilian Kwok Ling-lai DAB 1,122
38 Lai Tung-kwok NPP 1,237
39 Leung Mei-fun BPA/KWND 1,348
40 Ho Kwan-yiu Nonpartisan 1,263
41 Chan Hoi-wing DAB 941
42 Alice Mak Mei-kuen FTU 1,326
43 Kevin Sun Wei-yung Independent 891
44 Stephen Wong Yuen-shan Nonpartisan 1,305
45 Lee Chun-keung Liberal 1,060
46 Cheung Kwok-kwan DAB 1,342
47 Kenneth Leung Yuk-wai Nonpartisan 1,160
48 Allan Zeman Nonpartisan 955
49 Lam Chun-sing FLU 1,002
50 Charles Ng Wang-wai Nonpartisan 958
51 Choy Wing-keung FTU 818

References

  1. ↑ https://hk.linkedin.com/in/carmen-kan-2577ab90. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Anti-LGBTQ lawmakers seek Hong Kong Gay Games ban over 'national security risk'". South China Morning Post. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Legislative Council General Election results: Election Committee constituency". www.info.gov.hk.


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