Council of Social Service chief Christine Fang considers next role
Christine Fang is not interested in an Exco role. The departing Council of Social Service chief would rather be a social worker again
The Hong Kong Council of Social Service's departing chief executive says she will not consider joining the Executive Council and is thinking of going back to frontline work as a social worker.
Christine Fang Meng-sang, 55, who officially resigned from the post last week to share her "third age" with her recently retired husband, said she wanted to "do something that is not for my career or livelihood".
Asked if she would consider joining the Executive Council if invited, she said: "I have never considered it and I will not consider it. My strength is to be in contact with the grass roots, to be a bridge between them and the government, not to be inside the government."
Fang noted different attitudes to social welfare in the three governments she has worked with.
Tung Chee-hwa showed that he cared, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen focused on economic development while Leung Chun-ying, an initial disappointment, was now willing to listen.
Tung had asked to meet her to discuss issues like social cohesion and poverty relief, but "ideas have to get off the ground".