In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Tam. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Maria Tam and the Chinese-style name is Tam Wai-chu.
The Honourable
Maria Tam
GBM GBS CBE JP
譚惠珠
Convenor of National People's Congress Hong Kong delegation
In office March 2013 – 3 March 2018
Preceded by
Yuen Mo
Succeeded by
Ma Fung-kwok
Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
In office 1 September 1983 – 31 October 1991
Appointed by
Sir Edward Youde Sir David Wilson
Preceded by
Henry Fang
Succeeded by
Selina Chow
Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office 1 September 1981 – 22 August 1991
Appointed by
Sir Murray MacLehose Sir Edward Youde Sir David Wilson
In office 21 December 1996 – 27 June 1997 (Provisional Legislative Council)
Personal details
Born
Tam Wai-chu
(1945-11-02) 2 November 1945 (age 78) Hong Kong
Political party
Progressive Hong Kong Society (1985–90) Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (1990–97) Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (1997–2005) Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (2005–15)
Education
St. Paul's Co-educational College
Alma mater
University of London (LLB) Gray's Inn
Occupation
Barrister
Maria Tam
Traditional Chinese
譚惠珠
Simplified Chinese
谭惠珠
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Tán Huìzhū
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Tàahm Waih jyū
Jyutping
Taam4 Wai6 zyu1
Maria Tam Wai-chuGBM GBS CBE JP (Chinese: 譚惠珠; born 2 November 1945) is a senior Hong Kong politician and lawyer. She is a member of the Committee for the Basic Law of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) since 1997 and the chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) since 2015.
As a successful politician early on, Tam was a member of the four different levels of representative councils, Executive Council, Legislative Council, Urban Council and Central and Western District Board in colonial Hong Kong in the 1980s. She was also a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee and took up various appointments from the Beijing government after she departed from the colonial government over the conflict of interest scandal in 1991.
Since 1997, she has become one of the most recognisable spokespersons and "most loyal mouthpieces" for the Beijing authorities on constitutional matters such as the interpretations of the Basic Law and constitutional reforms, in which she has always firmly stood and defended all of Beijing's decisions.
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