Jasper Tsang

The Honourable Jasper Tsang Yok-sing GBM JP
曾鈺成
2nd President of the Legislative Council
In office 8 October 2008 – 30 September 2016
Deputy	Miriam Lau Andrew Leung
Preceded by	Rita Fan
Succeeded by	Andrew Leung
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2016
Preceded by	Choy So-yuk
Succeeded by	Nathan Law
Constituency	Hong Kong Island
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2008
Succeeded by	Starry Lee
Constituency	Kowloon West
Non-official Member of the Executive Council
In office 1 July 2002 – 15 October 2008
Appointed by	Tung Chee-hwa Donald Tsang
Preceded by	Tam Yiu-chung
Succeeded by	Lau Kong-wah
Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong
In office 10 July 1992 – 2 December 2003
Preceded by	New party
Succeeded by	Ma Lik
Personal details
Born	(1947-05-17) 17 May 1947 (age 77) Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Nationality	Hong Kong Chinese
Political party	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Spouse(s)	Young Sun-yee (divorced) Ng Kar-man ​ (m. 2009)​
Alma mater	St Paul's College University of Hong Kong (BA, Cert.Ed., MEd)
Occupation	Politician
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Jasper Tsang Yok-sing GBM JP (Chinese: 曾鈺成; born 17 May 1947) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the founding member of the largest pro-Beijing party the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) from 1992 to 2003 and the 2nd President of the Legislative Council from 2008 to 2016.

Graduated from the University of Hong Kong, Tsang chose to teach in the leftist Pui Kiu Middle School and became its principal before he stepped into politics in the 1980s. In 1992 he founded the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong and first contested in the 1995 Legislative Council election in which he lost the race. He was elected in Kowloon West in the first Legislative Council election after the handover of Hong Kong in 1998. He was also the member of the Executive Council from 2002 to 2008.

He became the President of the Legislative Council in 2008. Due to his relatively fair and accommodating presiding styles and his relatively liberal image within the pro-Beijing camp, he enjoyed high popularity within his last years before his retirement from the Legislative Council in 2016. He also expressed interest in running in the 2012 and 2017 Chief Executive elections but did not stand eventually.