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Adrian Wan

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee  has assembled a new advisory panel and recruited five outstanding young people into her Savantas Policy Institute think tank to mark its fourth anniversary.
The 11 advisers to the think tank's subsidiary liberal arts academy include Ocean Park chairman Allan Zeman,  retired senior official David Akers-Jones, dermatologist Dr Louis Shih Tai-cho  and former Exco and Legco member Bernard Chan.  
'Regina has done a great job in Legco and so when she asked me I said I will continue to help her and the people of Hong Kong,' Zeman said at the celebration yesterday.
Ip (pictured) also introduced the five young entrants to the think tank at the event. 
Jeff Sze Chun-fai, 24, graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in statistics, and will be its director of research from September. He will be involved in the think tank's education policy. 
Vincent Yiu Chen-hung, 23, who has a bachelor degree in international relations from Stanford and a master's  degree in politics from Oxford University, will replace Ronald Chan Ngok-pang  as director of policy development. Chan, 27,  joined the Chief Executive's Office in May. The other three entrants are Germaine Lau Kit-man, 26; Francis Li Chung-hung, 26; and Tim Lo Man-him, 23.
Meanwhile, the independent lawmaker said she had not decided whether to stand for the district council election next year. 
The think tank gained two district council seats in 2007 and would encourage its young people to stand for district council elections, she said.
She said she disagreed with Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan's suggestion that people with 'substantial connections' to a functional constituency were eligible to run for the extra five seats for the district council functional constituency. Having consulted Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung,  she said she thought only directly elected district councillors were entitled to nominate and compete for these seats.




Savantas think tank is injected with young, talented blood