Fernando Chui Sai On is the current Chief Executive of Macau

Chief Executive of Macau

The Chief Executive of Macau is the head of the government of Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China and a former Portuguese overseas province.Under the Basic Law of Macau, the CE's role is:...

, he was the Secretary for Social and Cultural Affairs

Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture (Macau)

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 from 1999 to 2009.

Chui was born in 1957 to local construction tycoon Chui Tak Seng and Chan Keng Fan, the second son after Chui Sai Cheong. Through his marriage he is related to the late Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 tycoon Henry Fok Ying Tung, uncle to his wife Winnie Fok Wai Fun.

Education

In Macau Chui attended Lingnan High School and then spent his late year of high school at Hawaiian Mission Academy

Hawaiian Mission Academy

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 in Honolulu before pursuing his post-secondary education. Chui has become involved in the public health in the Macau Special Administrative Region, Chui obtained his training in the United States

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 and has various degrees:

• Bachelor's degree in City Hygiene Administration from California State University, Sacramento
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• PhD in Public Health at the University of Oklahoma
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• Registered member of the American Association of Public Hygiene
• registered member of the American Association for the Management of Medical Affairs

He was guest professor of the Huanan Teachers Training University.

Chui is also involved in youth and education causes including:

• tutor in the Chamber of Commerce for International Youth
• member of the Youth Committee of the Macau Government
• headmaster of the Kiang Ping School
• President of the Youth Association of the Kiang Wu Hospital
• member and Standing Committee member of All-China Youth Federation
• As he went to study in USA when he was very young, therefore he had not get the opportunity to study Mandarin. He speaks very poor Mandarin, this can be seen when he made his acceptance vow for the Chief Executive of Macao in front of President Hu Jintao.

Chief Executive of Macau

In June 2009 he declared himself the sole candidate for Macau's chief executive election. He was nominated by 286 members of the 300-member election committee, most with direct ties to Beijing. On "election" day, July 26, 282 committee members voted for Chui (14 blank, 4 abstention) and assumed his new role as Chief executive of Macau in December 2009.

Charities

• Executive manager and director of Medical and Health Department of the Tung Sin Tong Charitable Institution
• President of Macau Jaycee
• Executive Director of Macau Kiang Wu Hospital Charitable Association
• board member of the Macau Eye-Bank Foundation

He has also been involved in other boards in Macau:

• Vice President of the Association of the Management Professionals
• Honorary President of the Association of Nursing Staff of Macau

Prior to his current position, Chui served as member of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Macau Government.

Scandals

Chui has been linked to several scandals during his time as a minister of Edmund Ho

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Edmund Ho Hau Wah, GCIH, GML, GCM was the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. He is now the vice-chairman of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference....

's administration. Most notably, the East Asian Games

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 in 2005 were run under Chui's portfolio and put him in the midst of the Ao Man Long

Ao Man Long

Ao Man Long was the first Secretary for Transport and Public Works of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, from 20 December 1999 to 6 December 2006....

scandal. The games ran over budget by 70%. Ao allegedly received a MOP50 million (US$6.2 million) bribe in connection with the construction contract fort the games' centerpiece, the Macau Dome indoor arena. Overall, that project wound up costing MOP640 million, MOP285 million over budget. As a result, he was extremely unpopular amongst the pro-democracy camp even before he was elected as the chief executive.