Financial Secretary often abbreviated as FS, is a position of the Government of Hong Kong

Government of Hong Kong

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, commonly the Hong Kong Government, is led by the Chief Executive as Head of the Government, who is also the head of the Hong Kong SAR...

. The FS assists the Chief Executive (Governor before the transfer of sovereignty

Handover

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) in supervising the policy bureaux as directed by the CE, mostly finance and economy-related, and plays a key role in ensuring harmonisation in policy formulation and implementation. The FS is also responsible for delivering the annual budget at the Legislative Council

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Legislative Council is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong.-History:The Legislative Council of Hong Kong was set up in 1843 as a colonial legislature under British rule...

.

Before 1940, the position was titled Colonial Treasurer.

List of Colonial Treasurers before 1937

• Robert Montgomery Martin
  Robert Montgomery Martin
  Robert Montgomery Martin was a British author and civil servant. He was the first Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1845. He was a founding member of the Statistical Society of London , the Colonial Society , and the East India Association .- Further reading :*King, Frank H. H....
  
   (1844–1845)
• William Thomas Mercer
  William Thomas Mercer
  William Thomas Mercer was a British colonial administrator who served as the Colonial Treasurer , Auditor General , Colonial Secretary , and Administrator, between 15 March 1865 to 11 March 1866...
  
   (1845–54)
• ? Ricnaecker (1854–56)
• T.H. Forth (1856–62)
• James Russell (1882)
• Alfred Lister (1882–1883)
• H.E. Wodehouse (1883–90)
• ? Mitchell-Innes (1891–93)
• F.H. May (acting)
• Norman Gilbert Mitchell-Innes (1890–1895)
• A. M. Thomson (acting) (1895–1897)
• T. Sercombe Smith (1897–1898)
• A. M. Thomson (1899–1918)
• C. McI. Messer (1918–1931)
• E. Taylors (1931–1937)

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List of Financial Secretaries between 1937 and 1997

• Sir Sydney Caine KCMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
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  (1937–1940)
• Henry R. Butters (1940–1941)
• Sir Geoffrey Follows (1946–1951)
• Arthur Grenfell Clarke
  Arthur Grenfell Clarke
  Arthur Grenfell Clarke CMG was a government official in Hong Kong who rose to hold the position of Financial Secretary from 1952 to 1961. He was the first of three successive financial secretaries whose support for free market economic policies helped turn postwar Hong Kong into a thriving...
  
   CMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
   (1952–1961)
• Sir John James Cowperthwaite
  John James Cowperthwaite
  Sir John James Cowperthwaite KBE CMG , was a British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971...
  
   KBE CMG
  CMG
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   (1961–1971)
• Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave KBE CMG
  CMG
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   (1971–1981)
• Sir John Henry Bremridge KBE (1981–1986)
• Sir Piers Jacobs KBE (1986–1991)
• Sir Hamish Macleod KBE (1991–1995)
• Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
  Donald Tsang
  Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM, KBE is the current Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong....
  
   GBM
  GBM
  -Medicine:* Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor* Glomerular basement membrane, a part of the glomerulus which helps separate urine from blood-Other:* Game Boy Micro, a portable video game system from Nintendo...
  
   KBE (Sept 1995- June 1997)

List of Financial Secretaries after 1997

• Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
  Donald Tsang
  Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM, KBE is the current Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong....
  
   GBM
  GBM
  -Medicine:* Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor* Glomerular basement membrane, a part of the glomerulus which helps separate urine from blood-Other:* Game Boy Micro, a portable video game system from Nintendo...
  
  , KBE (July 1997 - May 2001)
• Antony Leung Kam-chung
  Antony Leung
  Antony Leung Kam-chung GBS JP was the former Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...
  
   (May 2001 - July 2003)
• Henry Tang Ying-yen
  Henry Tang
  Henry Tang Ying-yen, GBM, GBS, JP was the Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong until his resignation in September 2011. He is a candidate in the Hong Kong Chief Executive election of 2012, and believed to be preferred by Beijing....
  
   (July 2003 - June 2007)
• John Tsang Chun-wah
  John Tsang
  John Tsang Chun-wah , GBM, JP, is the current Financial Secretary of Hong Kong. His responsibility is to assist the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in overseeing policy formulation and implementation in financial, monetary, economic, trade and employment matters. He exercises control over the...
  
  (July 2007 - )