The Honourable Albert Chan Wai-yip (also known as 'Tai Kao' (大舊), born 3 March 1955 in Hong Kong) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator since 1991 except for the periods 1997–2000 and Jan–May 2011. Chan, formerly a social worker, was also a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council.

In 1986, together with Lee Wing-tat, he founded the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood. From 1994–2002 he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 2006 he co-founded the League of Social Democrats but resigned in 2011 over differences with the then leadership to form People Power with fellow legislator Wong Yuk-man.

He is active in grass roots issues and believes that the government is not genuinely committed to the electoral reform promised in the Hong Kong Basic Law.

2010 Five Constituencies Referendum

On 29 January 2010, Chan, together with four other lawmakers, Alan Leong, Tanya Chan, Leung Kwok-hung and Wong Yuk-man, resigned their seats in the Legislative Council. They intended that the popular vote in the by-elections triggered by their resignations would act as a de facto referendum on electoral reform, pressing the PRC Government into allowing universal suffrage in Hong Kong in compliance with Hong Kong's constitution, the Basic Law. On 16 May 2010, he was re-elected as a lawmaker in the by-election.

Albert Chan (born 1955) is a Hong Kong politician in the pan-Democratic camp.

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Albert Chan Sun-Chi (Chinese: 陳新滋; born 30 October 1950) is a Hong Kong professor of chemistry and traditional Chinese medicine. He has served as a vice-president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the president of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).

Career

Chan began his professional career in chemistry in 1979 at Monsanto in the United States. He moved back to Asia in 1992 to serve as a visiting expert at National Taiwan University, and then returned to Hong Kong in 1994 to take up the position of chairman of PolyU's Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Engineering. While teaching at PolyU, he also pursued academic interests in mainland China, becoming the first dean of Sun Yat-sen University's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and later the first director of the State Key Laboratory of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology in Shenzhen. He was named a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. He held his PolyU departmental chairmanship until 2007, when he became the dean of the university's Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles and the Vice-President for Research and Development.