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Gordon Siu


Gordon Siu Kwing-chue, CBE, GBS, JP (Chinese: 蕭炯柱; born 29 November 1945) is a former Hong Kong civil servant. From 1993 to 2001, he served as Secretary for Economic Services, Secretary for Transport, head of the Central Policy Unit and Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands.

He was born in 1945 and was educated at the Birmingham University.

He joined the civil service as an Administrative Officer in 1966. He had served various positions in the government, including the Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service from 1981 to 1985, Secretary General of the Office of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils from 1985 to 1988 and Postmaster General from 1988 to 1992. In 1993, he was appointed Secretary for Economic Services. During his service, he was responsible for promoting the construction of the Chek Lap Kok Airport as the director of New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office, in which the construction plan became an issue of the Sino-British dispute on the eve of the handover. He was later appointed Secretary for Transport, and head of the Central Policy Unit from 1997 to 1999 after the handover. He became Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands in 1999 until retired from the government in 2001. Siu was awarded the honours of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1997 and Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) in 2002 and appointed a non-official Justice of the Peace in 2003.


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