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Suzanne Wu

Suzanne Wu
胡穗珊
Chairwoman of the Labour Party
In office 13 December 2015 – 22 August 2017
Preceded by	Lee Cheuk-yan
Succeeded by	Kwok Wing-kin
Personal details
Born	(1980-11-05) 5 November 1980 (age 43)
Political party	Labour Party (2011–17) Community March
Alma mater	Hong Kong Polytechnic University University of Warwick

Suzanne Wu Sui-shan (Chinese: 胡穗珊; born (1980-11-05)5 November 1980) is a Hong Kong politician. She is the former chairwoman of the pro-democratic Labour Party and project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. After leaving Labour in 2017, she co-founded Community March.

Wu graduated from the St Stephen's College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in Language, Culture and Communication. She later went to England with a scholarship and studied at the University of Warwick with a master's degree in Gender and International Development.^[1]

She once led union members to occupy the vice chancellor’s office at the Polytechnic University to call for higher pay for the cleaning staff when she served as a student union leader at the institution. Their pay eventually was raised from some HK$4,500 to HK$6,000.^[2] She had been a director at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), focusing on the interests of cleaning workers and security guards, and is also a project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism, advocating gender equality. She is also a founding member of the Labour Party. On 13 December 2015, she replaced Lee Cheuk-yan as the chairwoman of the Labour Party after defeating two other candidates with about 60% support.^[1] On 23 August 2017, she resigned from the chair and withdrew from the Labour Party. Subsequently she co-founded Community March.^[3]

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