Sophie Leung


Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun, OBE, GBS, JP is a Hong Kong politician. She was a Member of the Legislative Council from 1996 to 2012, representing the textile and garment industry, and became a Deputy of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China in 2003.

Career

She has been a director since the 1970s of large textile conglomerates in Hong Kong with businesses extending globally, together with her husband, Brian Leung Hung-tak :zh:梁孔德, chairman of the Hong Kong Football Association. She founded Seattle Pacific Industries, a privately held company, which manufactures, markets, and distributes casual wear under its labels such as Union Bay and Sergio Valente in the United States with annual sales of over US$200 million. Casual wear-bearing fashion labels owned by Seattle Pacific Industries are sold in over 3,000 outlets in the United States, including department stores such as Macy's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and JC Penney.

Legislation

Personal life

Leung studied in the United States, and is married with three children.