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Susana Chou: the businesswoman who became the first President of the Macao SAR Legislative Assembly
Susana Chou
Susana Chou was the first President of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, holding the post across three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2009. Born into a Shanghai industrialist family and resident in Macao from 1968, she won a seat in Portuguese Macao's first direct Legislative Assembly election in 1976 and served across both the Portuguese and SAR eras. One of the city's best-known women in business and among its earliest localised legislators, she later served as a Standing Committee member of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Basic Law Committee, and received the Grand Lotus Medal of Honour in 2003.
Kou Hoi In: from labour-union ranks to President of the Legislative Assembly
Kou Hoi In
Former President of the Legislative Assembly of Macao (2019–2025). A long-serving lawmaker with roots in education and the labour-union movement, he led legislation on welfare, labour rights, and Basic Law interpretation across two terms.
Chui Sai Cheong: a long-serving indirectly elected legislator and community leader
Chui Sai Cheong
Chui Sai Cheong is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, having held an indirectly elected professional-constituency seat from the SAR's establishment in 1999. He served as the Assembly's First Secretary (2009–2017) and as Vice-President (2017–2025). He did not stand in the 2025 election, and his tenure ended with the seventh-term Assembly in October 2025. An accountant by training and the elder brother of former Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, he has long been active in Macao's professional and community associations and was among the longest-serving members of the SAR legislature.
Ng Kuok Cheong: a directly elected legislator across seven terms since 1992
Ng Kuok Cheong
António Ng Kuok Cheong is a directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, first elected in 1992 and returned across seven consecutive terms — spanning the Portuguese and SAR eras — until 2021, making him one of the most senior pro-democracy legislators in Macao. An economics graduate who worked in banking early in his career, he became founding chairman of the New Macau Association and long campaigned for full universal suffrage for the Legislative Assembly and the Chief Executive, while questioning public finance and government policy.
Au Kam San: from teacher to a directly elected legislator across five consecutive terms
Au Kam San
Au Kam San is a directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, returned for five consecutive terms from 2001 to 2021 — one of the longest-serving pro-democracy legislators in Macao. A teacher by background and a municipal councillor before the handover, he was an early co-founder of the New Macau Association and has long focused on electoral reform, universal suffrage and civil rights, contesting elections under the banners of the New Macau Association and later the New Democratic Macau Association.
Chan Meng Kam: from Fujianese immigrant to businessman-legislator
Chan Meng Kam
Chan Meng Kam is a Macao businessman and former directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly, returned for three consecutive terms from 2005 to 2017. Born in Jinjiang, Fujian, he moved to Macao as a teenager and founded the Golden Dragon Group in 1990, building businesses across supermarkets, hotels and trading to become a prominent Macao entrepreneur. He contested direct elections under the United Citizens Association of Macau (ACUM), long representing the Fujianese community, and held roles including CPPCC member and various community-association posts.
André Cheong Weng Chon: from Legal Affairs Bureau to Legislative Assembly President — Macao's cross-branch lawyer-technocrat
Cheong Weng Chon
President of the 8th Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR since 16 October 2025. Born in Beijing in 1966, he holds a Portuguese BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an LL.B. from the University of Macau, and built his career in Macao's legal-affairs system — Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau for 14 years (2000–2014), Commissioner Against Corruption for five (2014–2019), and Secretary for Administration and Justice for almost six (December 2019 – October 2025), concurrently spokesperson of the Executive Council, chair of the 2022 Gaming Concession Public Tender Committee, and Executive Deputy Director of the Hengqin Cooperation Zone Management Committee. Reassigned by State Council decree in September 2025 as a CE-appointed legislator, he was elected President of the Legislative Assembly with a unanimous 33-vote ballot on 16 October 2025 — the first sitting Macao Secretary in SAR history to cross from the cabinet to lead the legislature, and the first appointed (not directly or indirectly elected) member to chair the Assembly.
Agnes Lam: the communication scholar and poet who became an academic-legislator
Agnes Lam
Agnes Lam Iok Fong is a Macao scholar, poet and former directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly (2017–2021). An associate professor in the Department of Communication and assistant dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau, she researches the history of Macao's Chinese- and Portuguese-language press. Running under Macau Civic Power on her third attempt, she won a directly elected seat in 2017 — one of the few legislators in Macao drawn from academia — and focused in office on education, culture, media and urban development.