| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Professional Commons | |
| Chairman: | Paul Zimmerman |
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| Headquarters: | 22/F, On Hong Commercial Building, 141-147 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong |
| Affiliation1 Title: | Regional affiliation |
| Affiliation1: | Pro-democracy camp |
| Ideology: | Liberalism (HK) |
| Seats2 Title: | District Councils |
| Slogan: | "Serving Public Interest with Professional Integrity." |
| Order: | jp |
| Showflag: | stp |
| T: | 公共專業聯盟 |
| S: | 公共专业联盟 |
| L: | public professional alliance |
| P: | gōnggòng zhuānyè liánméng |
| J: | gung1 gung6 zyun1 jip6 lyun4 mang4 |
| Y: | gūng guhng jyūn yihp lyùhn màhng |
The Professional Commons is an independent, membership-based, non-profit organisation and public policy think tank established in Hong Kong on 25 March 2007. It is open to all professionals who share the same values.
The Professional Commons aims at improving the quality of public governance and empowering the community in the policy-making process by harnessing the soft power of responsible professionalism. The Professional Commons' missions are:[1]
The Professional Commons vow to work to promote matters of significant public interest rather than those of sectoral or trade interests.
During the Chief Executive election in March 2007, over 100 Election Committee (EC) members from various professional sectors joined hands to advocate a faster pace for democracy. Many of these EC members, together with like-minded professionals, decided afterwards to build on this foundation as an agent for democratisation and good governance.[1]
In the 2012 LegCo election, three Professional Commons members were elected to the legislature including Charles Mok in the Information Technology functional constituency (FC), Kenneth Leung in the Accountancy FC, and Dennis Kwok, who ran as a Civic Party candidate, in the Legal FC.
It adopts a network-based governance model and organisational matters are handled by three committees elected from among the members: the Strategy Committee, Management Committee and Communications Committee.[2]
Members may at any time, subject to the approval of the Strategy Committee, set up an issue task group provided at least 4 members from at least 3 professional sectors have expressed interest to play an active role. All task groups are open to all members. A convenor and a co-convenor, who shall serve as the link with the Strategy Committee, shall be elected from among the members of the relevant task groups.