Tributes pour in after former Hong Kong commerce minister Gregory So dies at 67
Lawyer served as commerce chief from 2011 to 2017 and oversaw broadcast regulation, including controversial licence bid by businessman Ricky Wong
Former Hong Kong commerce minister Gregory So Kam-leung has died at the age of 67.
It was understood that So, a lawyer by profession who served as the city’s secretary for commerce and economic development between 2011 and 2017, had suffered a stroke two months ago and was in hospital in Singapore before he died on Saturday morning.
So, a former vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), first joined the government in 2008 as undersecretary at the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau.
He was in the first batch of undersecretaries appointed by then chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, who hoped the newly created roles could help implement the government’s policy blueprint and agenda.
Senior officials and figures from across the political spectrum paid tribute to So upon learning of his death.