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Ms Chan Lai Fung, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Law, will be appointed Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Law with effect from 1 March 2006.

2. Ms Chan, 42 years old, joined the Ministry of Communications and Information in 1987 as an Assistant Director and subsequently Deputy Director handling Air Transport and Telecommunications, after graduating with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from Monash University on a Colombo Plan Scholarship.

3. In 1990, Ms Chan moved to the Ministry of Health as Deputy Director (Finance) and became the Director of Finance thereafter. In 1995, she was posted to the Ministry of Finance where she served as Director, Investment and subsequently as Director, Taxation. Ms Chan was posted to the Prime Minister’s Office, Public Service Division (PSD) in 1998. At PSD, she served as the Head of the then Scenario Planning Office, responsible for overseeing the development of scenario-based thinking in the Civil Service and later concurrently as the Director of the Institute of Policy Development, responsible for the training and development of senior public officers.

4. In 2002, Ms Chan was appointed Deputy Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and in 2004, she was appointed Deputy Secretary (Trade), Ministry of Trade and Industry. Ms Chan became Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Law in September 2005.

Issued by Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office on 24 February 2006