Zandra Mok Yee-tuen (Chinese: 莫宜端 ; born 23 August 1970) is one of the first political assistants appointed by the Government of Hong Kong in 2008.[1] She was re-appointed as the political assistant to the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, to assume office on 13 November 2012.[2]
Mok studied at Tak Nga Primary School and Heep Yunn School. She later graduate in the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations, and in the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London with a Master of Arts degree.[2] She is pursuing a PhD at Tsinghua University.[1]
Mok joined Television Broadcasts Limited in 1995, become a reporter a year later mainly responsible for the political news, she later stationed in Beijing. In 2004, she left the TV station to join Hong Kong Research Institute as a research manager. Prior to joining the government in 2008, she was a senior manager of the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre.[1][2]
In 2008, then Chief Executive, Donald Tsang appointed Mok one of the first nine Political Assistants. Mok served as the political assistants to the Secretary for Labour and Welfare from 3 November 2008 to 30 June 2012.[1] She was re-appointed to the same post on 31 October 2012 and assumed office on 13 November 2012.[2]