Abraham Shek

Abraham Shek
Abraham Shek
Traditional Chinese	石禮謙
Simplified Chinese	石礼谦
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shí Lǐqiān
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	sek6 lai5 him1

The Honourable
Abraham Shek
GBS JP
The Honourable Abraham Shek GBS JP
石禮謙
	Shek in 2019
Member of the Legislative Council
	In office; 1 October 2000 – 31 December 2021
Preceded by	Ronald Arculli
Succeeded by	Loong Hon-biu
Constituency	Real Estate and Construction
Personal details
Born	Razack Ebrahim Abdul; 24 June 1945 (age 79); Macau
Political party	Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong; Professional Forum
Spouse	Lisa Har
Alma mater	University of Sydney (BA, PGDE)
Occupation	Company Director

Abraham Shek Lai-him GBS JP or Abraham Razack (Chinese: 石禮謙; born Razack Ebrahim Abdul; 24 June 1945) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco), representing the real estate and construction industry in a functional constituency seat. He is a member of the political grouping Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong in Legco. He graduated from the University of Sydney in Australia.^{[citation needed]}

Razack is a businessman and former chief executive of the Land Development Corporation (now Urban Renewal Authority).^[1] He is a director of numerous large corporates, including China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd.^[2]

Political stance

Long a staunch pro-Beijing supporter of the Hong Kong Government, Shek surprised observers in October 2019 by siding with protestors in calling for an independent inquiry into police suppression of the then widespread pro-democracy protests, and in criticising the government's failure to recognise the need to address community concerns, particularly those among youth.^[3]

In March 2021, after FTU president Stanley Ng said that the government had allowed a "property hegemony" to allow developers to benefit greatly from increased property prices, Shek defended developers and said such "Cultural Revolution-style" criticism of developers would not fix the housing issues.^[4]

In April 2021, Shek opposed a bill that would introduce a vacancy tax on new units that were built but not sold after 12 months, a tax that would punish developers for leaving empty units unsold or unlet.^[5]

Positions held

Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, Legislative Council of HKSAR since October 2012,
Chairman, English Schools Foundation since May 2015
Honorary Fellow of The Education University of Hong Kong
Honorary Fellow of The University of Hong Kong
Honorary Fellow of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

References

^ Three Land Development Corporation members re-appointed Archived 11 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Webb-site Who's Who Database". Webb-site. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ "Hong Kong gov't should form independent probe into police conduct at protests, says pro-Beijing lawmaker Abraham Shek". Hong Kong Free Press. 30 October 2019.
^ "Scathing criticism of Hong Kong developers by union heavyweight akin to Cultural Revolution: lawmaker". Apple Daily 蘋果日報 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 26 March 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Developers, analysts warn against trying to solve housing crisis with vacancy tax". South China Morning Post. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by Ronald Arculli	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Real Estate and Construction 2000–2021	Succeeded by Loong Hon-biu
Preceded by James To	Senior Member in Legislative Council 2020–2021	Succeeded by Tommy Cheung
Order of precedence
Preceded by Leung Yiu-chung Member of the Legislative Council	Hong Kong order of precedence Member of the Legislative Council	Succeeded by Joseph Lee Member of the Legislative Council