Ip Son Sang

Mr. Ip Son Sang was born in 1964, of a family from Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and a Master’s Degree in International Law. From 1991 to 1993, he studied the Portuguese language and Portuguese law in the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Mr. Ip worked in the office of the Secretary of Statistics and Census of Macao in 1994, and in the Labour and Employment Services Bureau of Macao in 1995.  He became a judicial auditor in the courts of Macao in December 1995, a magistrate trainee in the Judicial Training Centre in 1996, and a prosecutor of the Public Prosecutions Office of Macao in 1998. He became a judge of the Primary Court of the MSAR in December 1999, Collegial Panel President of the Primary Court of the MSAR in 2011, and the President of the Primary Court and of the Administrative Court of the MSAR in 2013. Mr. Ip was appointed as President of the Electoral Affairs Commission for the election of the fifth Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR in 2013. He was also a member of the Electoral Affairs Commission for the fourth Chief Executive Election in 2014. He has assumed the post of Prosecutor-General of the Public Prosecutions Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region since December 2014.