Rosanda Mok

In this Chinese name, the family name is Mok (莫).
Rosanda Mok
莫嘉嫻
Chairperson of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
In office
23 January 2016 – 24 September 2016
Preceded byBruce Liu
Succeeded bySze Tak-loy
Member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council
In office
1 January 2020 – 9 July 2021
Preceded byWu Chi-wai
ConstituencyKing Fu
Member of the Kowloon City District Council
In office
1 January 2000 – 31 December 2015
Preceded byLuk Wai-kong
Succeeded byTerence Siu
ConstituencyMa Tau Wai
Personal details
Born (1972-05-23) May 23, 1972 (age 52)
Hong Kong
Political partyHong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (1999–2017)
Democratic Party (2017–present)
Alma materChinese University of Hong Kong
OccupationPolitician

Rosanda Mok Ka-han (Chinese: 莫嘉嫻; born 23 May 1972) is a Democratic Party politician in Hong Kong and a member of Wong Tai Sin District. She is the former chairman of the pro-democracy pro-grassroots Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and former member of the Kowloon City District Council for Ma Tau Wai.

Biography

Rosanda Mok was born in 1972 and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a master's degree in Sociology. She joined the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), a local-based pro-grassroots pro-democratic party and was first elected to the Kowloon City District Council through Ma Tau Wai in the 1999 District Council election and re-elected for three times until she was unseated by the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) newcomer Terence Siu Tin-hung in the 2015 election with a narrow margin of 45 votes.

She has also hold public positions including the Buildings Appeal Tribunal Panel, the Gas Safety Appeal Board Panel, and the Obscene and Indecent Articles Panel of Adjudicators.[1]

On 23 January 2016, Mok was elected the first female chair of the ADPL, succeeding veteran Bruce Liu.[2] Her chairmanship lasted for less than a year as in September the same year, Mok resigned from the chairperson post of ADPL because her party suffered a historic defeat in losing its only seat in the 2016 legislative election.[3] She was succeeded by Sze Tak-loy.[4]

In 2017, after a legislative seat in West Kowloon was vacated following the oath-taking controversy, veteran lawmaker and former chairman Frederick Fung sought for nominations from ADPL to contest the March 2018 Kowloon West by-election. However, Mok insisted the party should nominate a younger member instead. She left the ADPL on 26 June 2017 after the party resolved to nominate Fung. She later joined the Democratic Party. In 2019, she fought the Wong Tai Sin District Council seat vacated by party chairman Wu Chi-wai, and retained the seat.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Mok, Rosanda Ka Han 莫嘉嫻". Webb-site Who's Who.
  2. ^ "民協換屆誕女主席 43歲莫嘉嫻喜見年輕化". Ming Pao. 23 January 2015.
  3. ^ 【立會選戰】民協區議員爆退黨潮　莫嘉嫻將為選舉失利辭主席
  4. ^ 「慢必」擔任人民力量新主席　莫嘉嫻辭去民協主席
  5. ^ "2019 District Councils Election – Election Results (Wong Tai Sin)". Government of Hong Kong. 25 November 2019.
Political offices
Preceded by
Luk Wai-kong
 Member of the Kowloon City District Council
Representative for Ma Tau Wai
2000–2015 		Succeeded by
Terence Siu
Preceded by Member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council
Representative for King Fu
2020–2021 		Succeeded by
(Vacant)
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
2016 		Succeeded by