About the Guest of Honour

Mr Michael Suen Ming-yeung, GBS, JP
Secretary for Education

Mr Suen was born in 1944. He joined the Government in 1966 as an Administrative Officer and was promoted to the rank of Director of Bureau in January 1991. During the early years of his career, he served in the former New Territories Administration, Resettlement Department and Environment Branch. Mr Suen was Deputy Secretary for Transport in September 1981; Director, City Services in the Urban Services Department in November 1983 and Deputy Director, Regional Services Department in April 1985. Mr Suen became Director of Regional Services in June 1986 and Regional Secretary (New Territories) of the City and New Territories Administration in December 1987.

Mr Suen was appointed Secretary for Constitutional Affairs in March 1989 and Secretary for Home Affairs in November 1991. Between March and early July in 1997, he was on temporary secondment to the Chief Executive's Office as the Secretary for Policy Co-ordination. He resumed his post as Secretary for Home Affairs on July 8, 1997 and took up the appointment as Secretary for Constitutional Affairs on August 4, 1997. Mr Suen was Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands from July 2002 to June 2007.

Officiating Guests

Professor Hextan Ngan Yuen-sheung
Chairperson, The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong

Professor Hextan Y.S. Ngan is the Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, The University of Hong Kong. She joined the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong as a council member in 2000, and became the Chairperson of the Association since 2006. She is also the Honorary Adviser of the FPAHK Cervical Disease Clinic, members of the Information, Education & Communication Subcommittee, Research Subcommittee and Health Services Subcommittee.

As the Founding President of the Hong Kong Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Prof Ngan’s expertise in cervical cancer screening, HPV and genetic study in cervical cancer has gained international recognition. She has been invited to be an advisor to the Cervical Cancer Control Committee of World Health and Asian Cervical Cancer Prevention Advisory Board (ACCPAB); also, as the President-Elect of the Asia Oceania research organization of Genital Infections & Neoplasia (AOGIN) since March 2010.

Dr Gill Greer
Director-General, IPPF

Dr Gill Greer is a highly experienced and committed sexual and reproductive health professional. She has been Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) since 2006, and was formerly the Executive Director of the New Zealand Family Planning Association, with a staff of 300 people, and IPPF Member Association.

Dr Greer has been a member of the New Zealand government delegations to the United Nations General Assembly Session on HIV/AIDS (2006), the United Nations World Summit (2005), the Commission on the Status of Women (2005) and the Commission on Population and Development (2004). And she has been awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to family planning.

Formed in 1952 at the Third International Conference on Planned Parenthood in Bombay, India, IPPF is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. It is a worldwide movement of national organizations working with and for communities and individuals. Its network of national Member Associations works to provide vital, often life saving, services to some of the poorest and most marginalized people in more than 170 countries worldwide.
www.ippf.org/


Professor the Honourable Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, GBS, JP
President, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung is the President of The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He received his PhD degree in Government from The London School of Economics & Political Science, UK. Professor Cheung is now a Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He also sits on several statutory and advisory bodiesincluding: the Consumer Council (as chairman) and the Housing Authority (as chairman of the Subsidized Housing Committee), etc.

Ms Lina Yan, MH, JP, Hon. Fellow (CUHK)
Chairperson, Organizing Committee of the 4th Asian Conference on Sexuality Education

Ms Lina YAN is the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the 4th Asian Conference in Sexuality Education and the Vice-Chairman of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong. Ms Yan joined the educational and promotional work of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong since 1986, and was devoted to the promotion of the sexuality education and sexual and reproductive work over the years. Ms Yan has worked as a secondary school teacher, and served as supervisor and Board member of secondary and primary schools and kindergartens. In 1976 she joined Radio Television Hong Kong and when she left in 1995, was the Head of RTHK's Education Television Division. During her work in RTHK, she joined hands with FPAHK to produce the well-known TV series "Sex Education” which created a precedent for sex education in Hong Kong, at the same time established a positive image for FPAHK. Ms Yan continued her volunteer work in FPAHK in person after she left RTHK. Ms Yan contributed immensely to community services, particularly to the promotion of moral education, Chinese culture and better development in general education. Currently Ms Yan is sitting on various committees of the HKSAR government, different kinds of educational institutes as well as non-profit-making charitable bodies, serving as Member of the Board of Trustees of United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Director of The Education Foundation of The Federation of Alumni Associations of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Member of Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Vice President of Concerted Efforts Resource Centre and Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Proper Cantonese Pronunciation. She was awarded Medal of Honour, HKSAR in 2004; conferred Honorary Fellow, CUHK in May 2005; and appointed Justice of the Peace, HKSAR in July 2005.