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Secretary for Development

FieldValue
postHong Kong
Special Administrative Region
Secretary for Development
發展局局長
insigniaRegional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg
insigniacaptionEmblem of Hong Kong
departmentDevelopment Bureau
imageFile:甯漢豪_20230607_(cropped).jpg
incumbentBernadette Linn
incumbentsince1 July 2022
styleThe Honourable
appointerCentral People's Government
nomination by Chief Executive
inauguralGordon Siu
Secretary for Planning and Lands
Carrie Lam
Secretary for Development
formation21 January 1999
1 July 2007
salaryHK$4,021,200 per annum
websiteDEVB

Special Administrative Region](hong-kong-special-administrative-region) Secretary for Development 發展局局長 nomination by Chief Executive Secretary for Planning and Lands Carrie Lam Secretary for Development 1 July 2007

The Secretary for Development of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for planning, land development and public works related development policy in Hong Kong. The position was created in 2007 to replace portions of the previous portfolios of Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works and Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands.

List of office holders

Political party:

Surveyor General, 1842–1891

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeGovernorRef
1[[File:No image.svg80px]]Alexander T. Gordon
歌頓18421845Sir Henry Pottinger
(1841–1843)
Administrator
Sir Henry Pottinger
(1843–1844)
Sir John Francis Davis
(1844–1848)
2[[File:Charles_Saint_George_Cleverly.jpg80px]]Charles St George Cleverly
急庇利18451865
Sir George Bonham
(1848–1854)
Sir John Bowring
(1854–1859)
Sir Hercules Robinson
(1859–1865)
3[[File:No image.svg80px]]Wilberforce Wilson
衛信18651869
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
(1866–1872)
4[[File:No image.svg80px]]Lewis Henry Moorsom
睦誠18691873
Sir Arthur Kennedy
(1872–1877)
5[[File:No image.svg80px]]John MacNeile Price
裴樂士18731889
Sir John Pope Hennessy
(1877–1882)
Sir George Bowen
(1883–1885)
Sir William Des Voeux
(1887–1891)
6[[File:No image.svg80px]]Samuel Brown
布朗18891891
Sir William Robinson
(1891–1898)

Directors of Public Works, 1891–1941

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeGovernorRef
1[[File:No image.svg80px]]Francis Alfred Cooper
谷柏10 October 18911897Sir William Robinson
(1891–1898)
2[[File:No image.svg80px]]Robert Daly Ormsby
安庶庇21 October 18971901
Sir Henry Arthur Blake
(1898–1903)
3[[File:William Chatham.jpg80px]]William Chatham
漆咸12 October 19011921
Sir Matthew Nathan
(1904–1907)
Sir Frederick Lugard
(1907–1912)
Sir Francis Henry May
(1912–1918)
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
(1919–1925)
4[[File:No image.svg80px]]Thomas Luff Perkins
白健時1 July 19211923
5[[File:No image.svg80px]]Harold Thomas Creasy
祈禮士30 August 19231932
Sir Cecil Clementi
(1925–1930)
Sir William Peel
(1930–1935)
6[[File:No image.svg80px]]Richard McNeil Henderson
軒德蓀12 December 19321939
Sir Andrew Caldecott
(1935–1937)
Sir Geoffry Northcote
(1937–1941)
7[[File:No image.svg80px]]Alexander Bruce Purves
包華士28 September 193925 December 1941
Mark Aitchison Young
(1941)

Directors of Public Works, 1946–1981

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeGovernorRef
-[[File:No image.svg80px]]Harold Stuart Rouse7 September 19451946Military administration
8[[File:No image.svg80px]]Victor Kenneth Kenniff15 May 19461949Sir Mark Aitchison Young
(1946–1947)
Sir Alexander Grantham
(1947–1957)
9[[File:No image.svg80px]]Edward Audley Boyce26 August 19491950
10[[File:No image.svg80px]]Theodore Louis Bowring
包寧5 December 19501957
11[[File:No image.svg80px]]Allan Inglis
英格理22 May 195728 February 1963title=G.N. 384 of 1963journal=Hong Kong Government Gazettedate=1 March 1963volume=105page=506}}
Sir Robert Brown Black
(1958–1964)
12[[File:No image.svg80px]]Alec Michael John Wright
鄔勵德7 March 196327 March 1969title=G.N. 429 of 1963journal=Hong Kong Government Gazettedate=8 March 1963volume=105page=574}}
Sir David Trench
(1964–1971)
13[[File:No image.svg80px]]James Jeavons Robson
盧秉信28 March 1969August 1973title=G.N. 608 of 1969journal=Hong Kong Government Gazettedate=3 April 1969volume=111page=676}}
Sir Murray MacLehose
(1971–1982)
14[[File:No image.svg80px]]David Wylie McDonald
麥德霖February 19741981

; Development issues were handled by Secretary for Lands and Works between 1981 and 1989.

Secretaries for Works, 1989–1997

№PortraitNameTerm of officeGovernorRef
1[[File:No image.svg80px]]Kenneth Kwok
郭偉階1 September 198931 March 1992Sir David Wilson
(1987–1992)
2[[File:No image.svg80px]]Ronald James Blake
詹伯樂1 April 1992May 1995
Chris Patten
(1992–1997)
3[[File:No image.svg80px]]Kwong Hon-sang
鄺漢生15 May 199530 June 1997

Secretaries for Works, 1997–2002

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDurationChief ExecutiveTermRef
Nonpartisan}} align=center1[[File:No image.svg80px]]Kwong Hon-sang
鄺漢生1 July 19976 August 1999Tung Chee-hwa
(1997–2005)1
Nonpartisan}} align=center2[[File:No image.svg80px]]Lee Shing-see
李承仕7 August 199930 June 2002

; Development issues were handled by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works between 2002 and 2007.

Secretaries for Development, 2007–present

No.PortraitNameTerm of officeDurationChief ExecutiveTermRef
Nonpartisan}} align=center1[[File:Carrie Lam 2016.jpg80px]]Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
林鄭月娥1 July 200730 June 2012Donald Tsang
(2005–2012)3
Nonpartisan}} align=center2[[File:No image.svg80px]]Mak Chai-kwong
麥齊光1 July 201212 July 2012Leung Chun-ying
(2012–2017)4
Nonpartisan}} align=center3[[File:財政司司長陳茂波17.jpg80px]]Paul Chan Mo-po
陳茂波30 July 201216 January 2017
Nonpartisan}} align=center4[[File:Blanksvg.svg80px]]Eric Ma Siu-cheung
馬紹祥13 February 201730 June 2017
Nonpartisan}} align=center5[[File:Michael Wong Wai-lun.png80px]]Michael Wong Wai-lun
黃偉綸1 July 201730 June 2022Carrie Lam
(2017–2022)5
Nonpartisan}} align=center6[[File:甯漢豪_20230607_(cropped).jpg80px]]Bernadette Linn Hon-ho
甯漢豪1 July 2022IncumbentJohn Lee
(2022–present)6

References

References

  1. (12 December 2016). "Remuneration package for Politically Appointed Officials serving in fifth-term HKSAR Government".
  2. (1 March 1963). "G.N. 384 of 1963". Hong Kong Government Gazette.
  3. (8 March 1963). "G.N. 429 of 1963". Hong Kong Government Gazette.
  4. (3 April 1969). "G.N. 608 of 1969". Hong Kong Government Gazette.
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