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Raimundo Arrais do Rosário: the Macanese engineer who bridged Portuguese and SAR rule — ten years running Transport and Public Works
Raimundo Arrais do Rosário
Secretary for Transport and Public Works of the Macao SAR (20 December 2014 – 19 December 2024), the infrastructure chief of Fernando Chui Sai On's second term and Ho Iat Seng's cabinet. Born in August 1956 in Portuguese Macau, a Macanese, he holds a civil-engineering degree from the University of Porto and completed a postgraduate programme in soil mechanics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He joined the civil service in 1979 and served the Portuguese administration until 1990 as technician, department head, deputy secretary, and Secretary of the Secretariat for Transport and Public Works; he was a Legislative Assembly member from 1992 to 1999. From 1999 to 2014 he headed the Macao Economic and Trade Offices in Lisbon, in Brussels (EU), and in Geneva (WTO). As Secretary for Transport and Public Works from December 2014 he oversaw land, urban planning, housing, transport, public works, and public utilities for ten years. He also served on the Basic Law Drafting Committee and the SAR Preparatory Committee.
Cheong U: from first Commissioner Against Corruption to Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture — two decades of post-Handover integrity and welfare
Cheong U
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR (20 December 2009 – 20 December 2014), after serving as the SAR's first Commissioner Against Corruption (20 December 1999 – 20 December 2009). Born in 1957 and a public-administration professional, he holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the University of Macau (formerly the University of East Asia) and a Master of Public Administration from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou. Before the Handover he sat on Macao's Municipal Council and the Islands Municipal Council, was deputy secretary-general of the Macau Association of Public Administration, and served on the Selection Committee for the first SAR government. He was a principal official for fifteen years across the Edmund Ho and Fernando Chui administrations — ten as integrity chief, five running the social-and-culture portfolio covering education, health, culture, sport, social welfare, and tourism.
Alexis Tam Chon Weng: from Chief Executive's Office to Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture — a 33-year bilingual welfare hand
Alexis Tam Chon Weng
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR (20 December 2014 – 19 December 2019) and the welfare-portfolio head of Fernando Chui Sai On's second-term cabinet. Born in July 1962 in Myanmar, he spent 33 years in the Macao civil service. He holds a BBA from National Chengchi University, an LL.B. from the China University of Political Science and Law, a master's in international business and entrepreneurship from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD in business administration from Nankai University. He was Chief of Chief Executive Fernando Chui's Office from December 2009 to December 2014, then Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture from December 2014 — overseeing education, health, culture, sport, social welfare, and tourism. After leaving office in December 2019 he was appointed head of the Macao Economic and Trade delegations in Lisbon (from 1 January 2020), Brussels (EU) and Geneva, and retired in December 2022, ending a 33-year public-service career; Lúcia Abrantes dos Santos succeeded him as acting head of the delegations.