Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng Fan-chiu | |
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吳返照 | |
 Official portrait, 2015 | |
| 5th Prime Minister of Nakong | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2012 | |
| President | Henry Chan Chi-kwong Lau Ip-sang Diane Lau Yuet-kwong |
| Preceded by | James Lee Yat-tak |
| Chairman of the Self-Determination Congress | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | James Lee Yat-tak |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 3 January 2008 – 2 May 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | James Lee Yat-tak |
| Preceded by | Winston Lee |
| Succeeded by | Michael Cheung |
| Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism | |
| In office 19 August 2004 – 3 January 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | James Lee Yat-tak |
| Preceded by | Tiger Tang |
| Succeeded by | Ingrid Chow |
| Member of Parliament for Ningcho—North Bay | |
| Assumed office 11 June 2000 Serving with Candy Tam and Wong See | |
| Majority | 37,014 (29%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ng Fan-chiu 8 November 1961 Shek Chuen, Leung Woo, Nakong |
| Political party | Self-Determination Congress |
| Spouse | Catherine Lam |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Ningcho |
| Education | National University of Nakong (LL.B.) University of Morwall (LL.M.) |
| Occupation | Politician and lawyer |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | File:Roundel of Nakong.svg Nakong Air Patrol |
| Years of service | 1980–1981 |
| Rank | Aircraftman |
| Unit | No. 3 (The President's Own) Squadron |
Andrew Ng Fan-chiu MP SC (吳返照; Morwall romanization: ng4 faan1 jiu3; born 8 November 1961) is a Nakongese politician who has served as the fifth Prime Minister of Nakong since 2012. Prior to his premiership, he served in the cabinet of James Lee as Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism from 2004 to 2008 and then as Minister of Finance from 2008 until 2012. Prior to entering government, Ng practiced commercial law, served a stint as president of the Nakong Bar Association, and attained the prestigious designation of Senior Counsel in 2001. He is a Member of Parliament for Ningcho—North Bay and the first Nakongese prime minister to be born after independence.
Ng was born in Shek Chuen, Leung Woo County to a merchant father and headmistress mother. He served a compulsory one-year term in the Nakong Air Patrol in 1980–81 and then studied law at the National University of Nakong. After graduating in 1983, Ng worked at the Barreau Lin litigation firm and as in-house counsel to Nacon, obtaining a Master of Laws from the University of Morwall in 1994. Ng was elected president of the Nakong Bar Association in 1998 for a two-year term, before obtaining the Self-Determination Congress' nomination for the constituency of Ningcho—North Bay at the 2000 election.
A close ally of then-Prime Minister James Lee, Ng was appointed after the 2004 election as Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism, in which role he oversaw the development of the Stevens Cove White Sand Resort to increase Euclean tourism to Nakong and the creation of a film credit to support Paisha-language filmmakers. Promoted to Minister of Finance in 2008, Ng oversaw the privatization of Nakonair, managed the public–private construction of the Nakong High-Speed Rail, and established himself as leader of the Self-Determination Congress' economic liberal wing. Following a strong showing for the opposition Democratic Reform Party at the 2012 election, Lee resigned and was succeeded by Ng as Prime Minister of Nakong.
As Prime Minister, Ng has maintaining a free-market agenda centered on export promotion and economic diversification, while pursuing strong relations with Nakong's traditional allies of Estmere and Senria. Key economic policies implemented during Ng's premiership include the deregulation of foreign ownership in Nakongese firms, the implementation of at-will employment, and the relaxation of many developmental measures that have traditionally dominated Nakongese industry. Ng oversaw the creation of the autonomous Nakong Development Corporation to replace direct state investment in industry and has promoted investments in Nakong's trade infrastructure, such as the expansion of the Port of Patlin and the construction of an Island Ring Road.
Ng is widely considered to be a social moderate, maintaining a moratorium on the death penalty, lending support to local efforts to create limited civil partnership status for same-sex couples, and revisiting the official narrative of the Patlin trials to acknowledge the miscarriage of justice. A self-described "pragmatic nationalist", Ng has increased financial support for cultural programs but encouraged a policy of Paisha–Estmerish bilingualism to attract foreign investment despite strong opposition from Paisha nationalists. Ng has controversially overseen electoral reforms in 2020 that foreign human rights bodies charge are intended to entrench the advantage of the Self-Determination Congress, while also receiving criticism for pursuing defamation actions against political and media opponents.