Suzanne Wu | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-hk |
Office: | Chairwoman of the Labour Party |
Term Start: | 13 December 2015 |
Term End: | 22 August 2017 |
Predecessor: | Lee Cheuk-yan |
Successor: | Kwok Wing-kin |
Birth Date: | 1980 11, df=yes |
Party: | Labour Party (2011–17) Community March |
Alma Mater: | Hong Kong Polytechnic University University of Warwick |
Suzanne Wu Sui-shan (; born 1980 11, df=yes) is a Hong Kong politician. She is the former chairwoman of the pro-democratic Labour Party and project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. After leaving Labour in 2017, she co-founded Community March.
Wu graduated from the St Stephen's College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in Language, Culture and Communication. She later went to England with a scholarship and studied at the University of Warwick with a master's degree in Gender and International Development.[1]
She once led union members to occupy the vice chancellor’s office at the Polytechnic University to call for higher pay for the cleaning staff when she served as a student union leader at the institution. Their pay eventually was raised from some HK$4,500 to HK$6,000.[2] She had been a director at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), focusing on the interests of cleaning workers and security guards, and is also a project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism, advocating gender equality. She is also a founding member of the Labour Party. On 13 December 2015, she replaced Lee Cheuk-yan as the chairwoman of the Labour Party after defeating two other candidates with about 60% support.[1] On 23 August 2017, she resigned from the chair and withdrew from the Labour Party. Subsequently she co-founded Community March.[3]