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The HonourableCarmen Kan
簡慧敏
Kan in 2023
Member of the Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2022
Preceded by	Constituency created
Constituency	Election Committee
Personal details
Alma mater	University of Hong Kong (LLB) Tsinghua University (MPA)

Carmen Kan Wai-mun (Chinese: 簡慧敏) is a Hong Kong solicitor, lawmaker, and member of the Legislative Council serving as Vice-Chair on the Panel on Security. She is currently the deputy convenor of the G19, a non-partisan group of legislators. In addition, she is the Vice-President of the Hong Kong-China Women's Federation Delegation and the Vice-President of the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers.

She belongs to the Election Committee constituency which was newly created under electoral changes in 2021. As a former partner of Clifford Chance from 2001 and 2010, currently the General Legal Counsel of the Bank of China Corporation, Kan specialises in corporate and banking law across Hong Kong and Mainland jurisdictions.

Kan currently serves in the Legislative Council's Finance Committee, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Members' Interests, Committee on Rules of Procedure, and House Committee.

She is currently the Vice-Chairperson of the Panel on Security (SE). She also sits on the Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services (AJLS), Panel on Constitutional Affairs (CA), Panel on Environmental Affairs (EA), and Panel on Financial Affairs (FA).

In November 2023, she was part of a group of lawmakers who said that the 2023 Gay Games may infringe on the national security law.

Electoral history

References

1. https://hk.linkedin.com/in/carmen-kan-2577ab90. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Anti-LGBTQ lawmakers seek Hong Kong Gay Games ban over 'national security risk'". South China Morning Post. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
3. "Legislative Council General Election results: Election Committee constituency". www.info.gov.hk.

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