Professional Commons

Professional Commons
公共專業聯盟
Chairman Stanley Ng
Vice-Chairmen Kenneth Leung
Charles Mok
Founded 25 March 2007 (2007-03-25)
Headquarters 22/F, On Hong
Commercial Building,
141-147 Hennessy
Road
, Wan Chai,
Hong Kong
Ideology Liberalism
Political position Centre
Regional affiliation Pro-democracy camp
Legislative Council
2 / 70
District Councils
3 / 458
Website
www.procommons.org.hk
Professional Commons
Traditional Chinese 公共專業聯盟
Politics and government
of Hong Kong
Foreign relations

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The Professional Commons (Chinese: 公共專業聯盟) is an independent, membership-based, non-profit organisation and public policy think tank established in Hong Kong on 25 March 2007. It is open to all professionals who share the same values.

Mission

The Professional Commons aims at improving the quality of public governance and empowering the community in the policy-making process by harnessing the soft power of responsible professionalism. The Professional Commons' missions are:[1]

The Professional Commons vow to work to promote matters of significant public interest rather than those of sectoral or trade interests.

History

During the Chief Executive election in March 2007, over 100 Election Committee (EC) members from various professional sectors joined hands to advocate a faster pace for democracy. Many of these EC members, together with like-minded professionals, decided afterwards to build on this foundation as an agent for democratisation and good governance.[1]

In the 2012 LegCo election, three Professional Commons members were elected to the legislature including Charles Mok in the Information Technology functional constituency (FC), Kenneth Leung in the Accountancy FC, and Dennis Kwok, who ran as a Civic Party candidate, in the Legal FC.

Structure

It adopts a network-based governance model and organisational matters are handled by three committees elected from among the members: the Strategy Committee, Management Committee and Communications Committee.[2]

Issue task group

Members may at any time, subject to the approval of the Strategy Committee, set up an issue task group provided at least 4 members from at least 3 professional sectors have expressed interest to play an active role. All task groups are open to all members. A convenor and a co-convenor, who shall serve as the link with the Strategy Committee, shall be elected from among the members of the relevant task groups.

Performance in elections

Legislative council elections

Election Number of
popular votes
% of
popular votes
GC
seats
FC
seats
Total seats +/− Position
2016 0 2
2 / 70
0Steady 8thIncrease

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "History & Mission". The Professional Commons.
  2. The Professional Commons
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