Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-hk |
Birth Name: | Lau Yau-fun |
Honorific-Suffix: | GBS, JP |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 1 July 1998 |
Term End1: | 30 September 2012 |
Predecessor1: | New parliament |
Successor1: | Felix Chung |
Constituency1: | Textiles and Garment |
Term Start2: | 21 December 1996 |
Term End2: | 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council) |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1945 |
Birth Place: | Macau |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Occupation: | Company director |
Spouse: | Brian Leung Hung-tak |
Children: | Nisa Leung Wing-yu |
Alma Mater: | University of Illinois |
Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun, OBE, GBS, JP (; born 9 October 1945, Macau) is a resident of the Hong Kong SAR, Mrs. Sophie Leung had been a Member of the Legislative Council of HKSAR from 1996 to 2012, representing the textile and garment industry, and has been a Deputy of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China since 2003.
She is a director since the 1970s of a number of large textile conglomerates in Hong Kong with businesses extending globally, she and her husband, Brian Leung Hung-tak, chairman of the Hong Kong Football Association.[1] She founded Seattle Pacific Industries, a privately held company, which manufactures, markets and distributes casual wear under their own fashion labels such as “Union Bay” and “Sergio Valente” in the United States, with annual sales of over US$200 million. Casual wear bearing fashion labels owned by Seattle Pacific Industries are sold in over 3,000 outlets in the United States, including major high-end department stores such as Macy's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and JC Penney.
Mrs. Sophie Leung was educated in the United States, and is married with three children.