About Government

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Chief Executive

Ho Iat Seng

Mr. Ho Iat Seng was born in Macao in June 1957 and his ancestral home is in Zhejiang.

In 2004, he was appointed as a member of the second-term Executive Council for the Macao SAR Government, member of the Economic Development Council and member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council.

He was an indirectly returned member and Vice-President of the fourth Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region between 2009 and 2013, having resigned from the position as a member of the Executive Council of the Macao Special Administrative Region.

He was an indirectly returned member and President of the fifth Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region between 2014 and 2017.

Starting from 2018, he was an indirectly returned member and President of the sixth Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region and on 5 July 2019, he resigned from the positions as an indirectly returned member and President.

Mr. Ho had been the deputy to and member of the Standing Committee of the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th and 13rdNational People’s Congress (NPC)since 2000. In April 2019, he tendered his resignation to the Standing Committee of the 13rd NPC, resigning as a deputy to the 13rdNPC.

In 1999, Mr. Ho was awarded the Industrial & Commercial Merit Medal by the Governor of Macao.

In 2001, he was awarded the Industrial & Commercial Merit Medal by the Government of the Macao SAR.

In 2009, he was awarded the Honorable Medal of Golden Lotus Flower by the Government of the Macao SAR.

On 25 August 2019, he was elected the fifth-term Chief Executive of the Macao SAR.

On 4th September 2019, Premier Li Keqiang chaired the Third Plenary Session of the State Council, appointing Ho Iat Seng as the fifth Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR). He was sworn into office on 20 December 2019.