| Agency Name: | Office of the Chief Executive |
| Nativename: | 行政長官辦公室 |
| Formed: | 1 July 1997 |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Hong Kong |
| Headquarters: | Office of the Chief Executive, 1 Tim Wa Avenue, Tamar, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong |
| Region Code: | HK |
| Chief1 Position: | Director of the Chief Executive's Office |
| Chief2 Position: | Permanent Secretary for the Chief Executive's Office |
| Website: | http://www.ceo.gov.hk/eng/office.htm |
Office of the Chief Executive (CEO) is one of the government agencies for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It consists of the immediate staff to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong and multiple levels of support staff reporting to the Chief Executive. The current director is, making her the first woman to hold the office.
Prior to the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, the Government House has always been the office location for the Governor of Hong Kong. After the transfer in 1997, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Tung Chee Hwa choose not to reside in the Government House, which relocated the office to the Government Secretariat.
When Donald Tsang assumed office in June 2005, he decided to reside in the Government House again and initiated a multiple months length remodeling for the house. In January 2006, the office relocated back to the Government House.
After the National Security Law was passed, the Chief Executive Office told Apple Daily that it would reveal the list of designated judges for national security cases, but in January 2021, Apple Daily revealed that the Chief Executive Office had broken its promise and cited confidentiality.[1]
In August 2022, after Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, John Lee criticized the visit and vowed that "The Hong Kong government would fully support and facilitate all necessary measures by Beijing to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity."[2] After mainland China suspended imports from hundreds of food factories in Taiwan, the Office of the Chief Executive was asked whether Hong Kong would do the same, and the Office said it had nothing to add.
Political party:
| width=10px | № | width=80px | Portrait | width=190px | Name | width=180px colspan=2 | Term of office | width=80px | Duration | width=120px | Chief Executive | Term | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lam Woon-kwong 林煥光 | 1 July 2002 | 6 January 2005 | Tung Chee-hwa | 2 | |||||||||
| Vacant | |||||||||||||
| Donald Tsang | align=center rowspan=2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| John Tsang Chun-wah 曾俊華 | 24 January 2006 | 30 June 2007 | |||||||||||
| Norman Chan Tak-lam 陳德霖 | 1 July 2007 | 31 July 2009 | align=center rowspan=3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Raymond Tam Chi-yuen 譚志源 | 1 August 2009 | 29 September 2011 | |||||||||||
| Gabriel Matthew Leung 梁卓偉 | 30 September 2011 | 30 June 2012 | |||||||||||
| Edward Yau Tang-wah 邱騰華 | 1 July 2012 | 30 June 2017 | Leung Chun-ying | 4 | |||||||||
| Eric Chan Kwok-ki 陳國基 | 1 July 2017 | 30 June 2022 | Carrie Lam | 5 | |||||||||
| Carol Yip Man-kuen 葉文娟 | 1 July 2022 | Incumbent | John Lee | 6 | |||||||||
Information Coordinator was created by Tung Chee Hwa after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, prior to the transfer, press release was handle by Information Services Department.
Office of the Chief Executive Building