Lau Kong-wah

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Ray Lau Kong-wah JP
劉江華
Secretary for Home Affairs
In office 21 July 2015 – 22 April 2020
Chief Executive	Leung Chun-ying Carrie Lam
Preceded by	Tsang Tak-sing
Succeeded by	Caspar Tsui
Under Secretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs
In office 21 December 2012 – 21 July 2015
Secretary	Raymond Tam
Preceded by	Adeline Wong
Succeeded by	Ronald Chan
Non-official Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
In office 14 October 2008 – 30 June 2012
Appointed by	Donald Tsang
Preceded by	Jasper Tsang
Succeeded by	Starry Lee
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Elizabeth Quat
Constituency	New Territories East
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
Personal details
Born	(1957-06-22) 22 June 1957 (age 67) British Hong Kong
Political party	United Democrats (1991–93) Civil Force (1993–present) DAB (1998–present)
Spouse	Muk Fei-man
Alma mater	St. Paul College Sir Robert Black College of Education University of Exeter City Polytechnic of Hong Kong.

Ray Lau Kong-wah, JP (born 22 June 1957, Hong Kong), also called Ray Lau,^[1][2] is a former Hong Kong Government official and former member of both the Legislative Council and the Executive Council. Until 2020, he was Secretary for Home Affairs.

Lau was vice-chairman of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), after founding the similarly aligned Civil Force in 1993. Before that, he was a member of a pro-democracy party, United Democrats of Hong Kong, one of the predecessors of the Democratic Party.