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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Anna Wu Hung-yuk
| native_name = {{nobold|胡紅玉}}
| native_name_lang = zh-hk
| image = Anna Wu Hung-yuk.JPG
| caption = Anna Wu (2010)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1951|1|25}}
| office1 = Convenor
| term_start1 = 21 January 2009
| term_end1 = 30 June 2017
| |1blankname1 = Chief Executive
| 1namedata1 = [[Leung Chun-ying]]
| predecessor1 = [[Lam Woon-kwong]]
| successor1 =
| office2 = Chairperson of the [[Competition Commission of Hong Kong]]
| term_start2 = 17 March 2009
| predecessor2 = [[Henry Fan]]
}}
'''Anna Wu Hung-yuk''' ([[Traditional Chinese]]: 胡紅玉; born 1951, Hong Kong), [[Gold Bauhinia Star|GBS]], [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] is a former non-official member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]]. She qualified as a solicitor after graduating from the [[Faculty of Law]] of the [[University of Hong Kong]]. She is currently a management consultant.<ref name=ISDbio>[http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201206/29/P201206290526.htm ExCo membership announced], Hong Kong Information Services Dept</ref>
Formerly, she served as Chairperson of the [[Mandatory Provident Fund (Hong Kong)|Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority]] and Council Member of the [[Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre]].<ref name=ISDbio/>
On 26 April 2013, she was appointed Chairperson of the Competition Commission, a position she continues to hold today.
Politically, she is considered on good terms with the [[Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong|pan-democratic camp]]. She has urged democratic parties to "roll up their sleeves" and set up a shadow cabinet that offers alternative policy programmes, in preparation for a time when they might hold political office.<ref name=SCMP26Jun12>[Exco member [Anna Wu] urges shadow cabinet], ''South China Morning Post'', Gary Cheung, 26 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012</ref>
==Public service==
In 1975, Wu was a founding member of the [[Hong Kong Observers]], a group of liberal-minded intellectuals and professionals.<ref name=SCMP26Jun12/>
From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]], but left disappointed having failed to put through three equal opportunities bills, citing government and bureaucratic intransigence towards greater public accountability.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nqNFxpTz-8gC&dq=%22Wu+Hung-yuk%22+husband&pg=PR12 The Other Hong Kong Report 1996], Ed by Nyaw Mee-kau and Li Si-Ming, page xii. Pub: Chinese University Press. {{ISBN|9622017150}}</ref>
She was Chairman of the [[Equal Opportunities Commission (Hong Kong)|Equal Opportunities Commission]], set up in 1996.
From October 1997 to July 1999, she was chairperson of the [[Hong Kong Consumer Council]] (HKCC).<ref>[http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/news/press_releases/1999072201.txt Consumer Council is deeply grateful to its outgoing Chairperson, Ms. Anna WU] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041128204035/http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/news/press_releases/1999072201.txt |date=28 November 2004 }}</ref> She became a member of HKCC in 1989 and was its vice-chairman from 1993. At that time, she headed its Legal Protection Committee (1992–97) and Consumer Legal Action Fund Management Committee. She was also vice-chairman of the Competition Policy Committee.<ref>[http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_chi/news/press_releases/1997100401.txt Appointments to the Consumer Council (October 4, 1997)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041124160443/http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_chi/news/press_releases/1997100401.txt |date=24 November 2004 }}</ref> Later, as chairperson, Wu was instrumental in the establishment of the [[Consumer Legal Action Fund]] (CLAF) in 1994. She then chaired the Management Committee of CLAF from December 1994 to January 1998, and chaired the Board of Administrators from January 1998.
Wu was chairman of the Operations Review Committee of the [[Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)|Independent Commission Against Corruption]].<ref>[http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200901/20/P200901200082.htm Chief Executive appoints new members to Executive Council]</ref>
In January 2009, Wu joined the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong|Executive Council]] (Exco) under [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]] [[Donald Tsang]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=12032&icid=3&d_str=20090120 |title=Kuk chief among five new Exco members |access-date=20 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522124904/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=12032&icid=3&d_str=20090120 |archive-date=22 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> When [[CY Leung]] became Chief Executive on 1 July 2012, Wu was one of only four members retained in the new Exco.<ref name=ISDbio/> Shortly afterwards she took the chair of the new Committee on the Implementation of Moral & National Education, set up to allay public concern over the government's controversial Moral & National Education Curriculum, which encourages loyalty to the 'motherland', China, and which is widely seen as tilted towards the Communist Party's version of history and loyalty.<ref>[http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/school_work/html/2012/08/20120822_102800.shtml Anna Wu to head national education committee], Government of Hong Kong, 22 August 2012</ref> Wu resigned from the Executive Council in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3011867/former-executive-council-member-anna-wu-urges-hong-kong|title=Cool down and 'unbundle' fugitive bill, former executive councillor says|date=2019-05-26|website=South China Morning Post|language=en|access-date=2019-07-10}}</ref>
Wu has also been a member of the [[Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong|Law Reform Commission]] and the [[Hospital Authority]]. She was a director of the [[Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation]] and a non-executive director of the [[Securities and Futures Commission]].<ref name=ISDbio/>
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