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british hong kong hong kong engineer 黎廣德 hong kong albert lai.jpg albert lai
 albert lai activist hong wah yan college , kowloon kong university -lrb- b.s. , m.soc.sci . -rrb-
albert lai

ir albert lai -lrb- lai kwong-tak , traditional chinese : 黎廣德 -rrb- is the current chairman of the professional commons and the founding chairman of the hong kong people 's council for sustainable development .
he is also the vice-chairman of the civic party , a member of the strategy sub-committee , council for sustainable development , hksar government .
lai has played an active role in the engineering sector and in the environmental movement for over thirty years .
having led the hong kong ngo delegation to the world summit on sustainable development in 2002 , he has taken a leading role in advocating the implementation of sustainable development strategies in hong kong .
he is a primary mover in a range of civil society initiatives in the fields of environmental protection , urban planning , heritage conservation , poverty alleviation and sustainability reporting .
he also led the hong kong ngo delegation to the united nations climate change conference in bali in december 2007 .
lai is a chartered engineer by profession .
he co-founded the china water company , an infrastructure investment firm backed by international investors , in 1996 and served as its managing director until 2004 .
lai received a bachelor of science -lrb- engineering -rrb- degree in 1980 and a master of social science degree in urban studies in 1984 from the university of hong kong .
