Permanent secretary of the Chief Executive's Office Elizabeth Tse Man-yee will be promoted to permanent secretary for commerce and economic development in a reshuffle of government personnel.
The Civil Service Bureau yesterday announced that six civil servants have been named to new postings.
Tse, 47, a rising star in the civil service, will take up her new post on April 26 and will be responsible for communications and technology policies. She will be acting at the rank of D8 - the highest directorate grade for a civil servant, up from her current rank of D6.
The senior civil servant is seen to have a close working relationship with Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen. The two worked in the former finance branch in the early 1990s, when Tsang was the treasury secretary.
She will succeed Duncan Pescod, 50, who will move to Transport and Housing Bureau as its permanent secretary in May, succeeding the retiring Thomas Chan Chun-yuen.
Kenneth Mak Ching-yu, 54, who is the private secretary to the chief executive, will assume Tse's current position.