Suzanne Wu
{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}
{{Use Hong Kong English|date=November 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Suzanne Wu
|native_name = {{nobold|胡穗珊}}
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|office = Chairwoman of the Labour Party
|term_start = 13 December 2015
|term_end = 22 August 2017
|predecessor = Lee Cheuk-yan
|successor = Kwok Wing-kin
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1980|11|5}}
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|party = Labour Party (2011–17)
Community March
|alma_mater = Hong Kong Polytechnic University
University of Warwick
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Suzanne Wu Sui-shan ({{lang-zh|t=胡穗珊}}; born {{birth date|df=yes|1980|11|5}}) is a Hong Kong politician. She is the former chairwoman of the pro-democratic Labour Party and project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. After leaving Labour in 2017, she co-founded Community March.
Biography
Wu graduated from the St Stephen's College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in Language, Culture and Communication. She later went to England with a scholarship and studied at the University of Warwick with a master's degree in Gender and International Development.{{cite news|newspaper=Ming Pao|title=工黨換班 女將胡穗珊任主席|date=13 December 2015|url=http://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20151213/s00001/1450003237115}}
She once led union members to occupy the vice chancellor’s office at the Polytechnic University to call for higher pay for the cleaning staff when she served as a student union leader at the institution. Their pay eventually was raised from some HK$4,500 to HK$6,000.{{cite news|title=New Hong Kong Labour Party leader urges equality for women in politics and better policies for caregivers|first=Jeffie|last=Lam|date=16 December 2015|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1891844/new-hong-kong-labour-party-leader-urges-equality-women|newspaper=South China Morning Post}} She had been a director at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), focusing on the interests of cleaning workers and security guards, and is also a project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism, advocating gender equality. She is also a founding member of the Labour Party. On 13 December 2015, she replaced Lee Cheuk-yan as the chairwoman of the Labour Party after defeating two other candidates with about 60% support. On 23 August 2017, she resigned from the chair and withdrew from the Labour Party. Subsequently she co-founded Community March.{{Cite web|url=https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20180226/57874162|title=新地區組織「社區前進」誕生 劍指2019年區會選舉|website=Apple Daily 蘋果日報|access-date=2019-02-12}}
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{{S-bef|before=Benny Yeung Tsz-hei}}
{{s-ttl|title=Member of Yau Tsim Mong District Council|district=Yau Ma Tei South|years=2020–2021}}
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Category:Alumni of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick
Category:Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Category:Hong Kong social democrats