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As Undersecretary for the Environment, Loh was responsible for drafting policy documents, including on air quality, energy, and climate change. She was responsible for stakeholder engagement in such matters as biodiversity and energy saving in buildings. Loh was also responsible for changing Hong
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From the 1980s, Loh is a published author of many academic and popular works, she hosted a public affairs radio program at one time, and is an Op-Ed writer and presenter and speaker on the environment, climate change, green finance, as well as geopolitics, such as US-China relations.
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Energy — the physical commodities trading arms of US multinational Salomon, Inc. (now Citicorp) — before joining a Hong Kong company (CIM Co.), where she headed the special projects division between 1992 and 1994. In April 2006, she was elected by shareholders of the
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Kong's shipping emissions regulation, which resulted in mainland China changing its policy, as well as playing a crucial role in ending the local trading of ivory. She left the government at the end of
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and "Woman Who Makes a Difference 2009" by RBS Coutts/FT in Women of Asia Awards. She has worked in many areas, including law, business, politics, media and the
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that she co-founded in 2000. She received many awards, including "Stars of Asia" in 1998 and again in 2000 by BusinessWeek, "Hero of the Environment 2007" by
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Loh worked for 12 years as a commodities trader (1980–1991), rising to become managing director at Philipp Brothers and
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Until her appointment as Undersecretary for the Environment, Loh was CEO of Civic Exchange, the Hong Kong
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Entrepreneur of the Year (Women of Influence Award, The American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, 2003)
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In 2017, following the end of her official role, she became an adjunct professor in the Division of
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she ran in two direct elections and won by large margins. She co-founded, in 1995, the
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at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management,
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In 2000, she and Lisa Hopkinson co-founded a Hong Kong-based non-profit
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Book Talk: Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
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and was responsible for creating and sponsoring the historic
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Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
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Starting in 2018, Loh has been teaching a course on non
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She then went to 416:Legislative Councillor, founder and CEO of 1531:Alumni of the City University of Hong Kong 797: 795: 793: 791: 442:Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office 440:and the Greater Bay Area, attached to the 77: 1502:Under Secretary for Transport and Housing 680:(book), Hong Kong University Press, 2004. 1591:21st-century Hong Kong women politicians 1586:20th-century Hong Kong women politicians 1270:. 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Index

Hong Kong name
surname
Loh
SBS
OBE
JP
Ordre national du Mérite

CWMC 2006
Legislative Council
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island Central
Chris Patten
British Hong Kong
Citizens Party
St. Paul's Convent School
Island School
Bedford High School
Alma mater
University of Hull
LLB
City University of Hong Kong
LLM
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
SBS

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