Chief Sec­re­tary for Administration’s Office, HKSAR

Mr Nip Tak Kuen, Patrick joined the Hong Kong Gov­ern­ment as an Admin­is­tra­tive Offi­cer in 1986. Since then, he has served in var­i­ous bureaux and departments.

Mr. Nip was Deputy Sec­re­tary for Health and Wel­fare from 2001 to 2004, respon­si­ble for pol­icy mat­ters relat­ing to elderly ser­vices and social secu­rity, and Deputy Direc­tor, Bei­jing Office of the Gov­ern­ment of the Hong Kong Spe­cial Admin­is­tra­tive Region from 2004 to 2006. He was Deputy Sec­re­tary for Food and Health from 2006 to 2009, respon­si­ble for pol­icy mat­ters relat­ing to pub­lic health and med­ical services.

Mr. Nip was Direc­tor of Social Wel­fare from 2009 to 2013. In June 2013, he took up a super­nu­mer­ary post as Direc­tor of the Chief Sec­re­tary for Administration’s Pri­vate Office, assist­ing the Chief Sec­re­tary on the work of poverty alle­vi­a­tion and pop­u­la­tion policy.

Set­ting of the Poverty Line and Analy­sis of the Poverty Sit­u­a­tion