Hong Kong Administrative Officers go global (5.9.2011)

"Administrative Officer" may sound like a dull, boring post limited to pushing paper around in an office all day. Hong Kong civil servants Ellen Chan and Eddie Lee, though, discovered the post can offer challenges that stretch their abilities, and can even open doors to overseas postings.

Ms Chan is now Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Guangdong, responsible for liaising on trade and economic activities with government officials and related organisations, throughout five provinces in the Mainland.

Another administrative officer, Eddie Lee, works halfway round the globe, in Brussels, where he is Deputy Representative of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office there. In his past 12 years as an administrative officer, he has worked in two policy bureaus and spent two years in the Economic & Trade Office in London. Mr Lee, his wife and two daughters, now make their home in Brussels. He spends most of his working day outside the office, meeting different countries' government officials and business leaders, to seek economic and trade co-operation opportunities. ( http://j.mp/nKuaAu )

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