Dr York Chow Yat-ngok, GBS, MBE, JP was appointed as the Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) in April 2013.  Dr Chow is an orthopaedic surgeon by profession. 

Prior to joining the EOC, Dr Chow served as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon of Princess Margaret Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital respectively from 1983 to 1992.  He was appointed Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 1992 and Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Mary Hospital in 2001.  He was subsequently appointed Cluster Chief Executive of the Hong Kong West Cluster of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority in 2002.  He was appointed by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Government as the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food from 2004 to 2007, and again as the Secretary for Food and Health from 2007 till 2012.

Ms Anna Wu Hung-yuk

Anna Wu Hung-yuk GBS, JP is a member of the Executive Council and a lawyer. She chairs the Academic Board of the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws of the University of Hong Kong and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

Ms Wu previously served as a member of the Legislative Council and as the Chairperson of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Consumer Council and the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Ms. Wu was also a member of the Law Reform Commission and the Hospital Authority. She was a Director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited and a Non-executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission.

Ms Puja Kapai Paryani

Puja Kapai Paryani has been an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong since 2012. She is the Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and the Director of the Summer Social Justice Internship Programme. Since 2005, she has been a non-practicing barrister of the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR.

Ms Paryani specialises in human rights, multiculturalism, citizenship and particularly the rights of minorities, including children and women. She has published articles internationally in the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Soochow Law Journal and chapters in various international presses, including Cambridge University Press and Ashgate. An important part of her research concerns human rights of minority groups, including the rights of ethnic minorities, women and children. She has led three funded-research projects with a total budget of more than HK$0.5 million and currently holds a GRF grant of HK$450,000 as well as a UNICEF research grant to carry out commissioned research on children's rights. She was Co-convenor of the University of Hong Kong's Emerging Strategic Research Theme on Diversity Studies and sits on the board of and is consultant to various NGOs in Hong Kong.

Ms Angela Meng

Angela Meng is a journalist with the South China Morning Post, covering Chinese politics and society. She has written extensively on corruption, economic reform, foreign policy, environmental woes and human rights issues.

Most recently, Ms Meng delivered a string of breaking news coverage on missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.