Donald Tsang
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tsang Yam-kuen, Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
Hong Kong politician (born 1944)
Key facts
- President
- Hu Jintao
- Premier
- Wen Jiabao
- Preceded by
- Tung Chee-hwa
- Succeeded by
- Leung Chun-ying
- Chief executive
- Tung Chee-hwa
- Governor
- Chris Patten
- Born
- Tsang Yam Kuen , ( 1944-10-07 ) 7 October 1944 (age 81) , Hong Kong
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse
- Selina Pou Siu-mei ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 )
- Education
- Wah Yan College
- Alma mater
- Harvard University ( MPA )
- Profession
- Politician, Civil Servant
- Origin
- Namhoi , Kwangtung
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Donald
- Family name
- Zeng
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Donald Tsang WEF.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Convicted of
- malfeasance in office
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- Commons category
- Donald Tsang
- date of birth
- 1944-10-07
- nickname
- 煲呔曾
- P10632
- Donald Tsang
- place of detention
- Stanley Prison
- name in native language
- 曾蔭權
- permanent resident of
- Hong Kong
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen GBM KBE (Chinese: 曾蔭權; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.
Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration. He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and gained his reputation internationally for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market in defending the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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