Chief Justice Andrew K.N. Li
Chief Justice of the HKSAR

Chief Justice Andrew K.N. Li was born in Hong Kong on 12th December 1948. He received his education in Hong Kong at St. Paul's Co-Educational Primary School and St. Paul's Co-Educational College until the completion of Form 3. He finished his secondary education in England and attended Cambridge University. He holds the degrees of Master of Arts and Master of Laws from that University. He was called to the English Bar in 1970 and the Hong Kong Bar in 1973.

Chief Justice Li was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 1 July 1997. Before his appointment, Chief Justice Li practised at the Hong Kong Bar. In 1988 he was appointed Queen's Counsel.

Chief Justice Li has a long record of public service. He was a member of the Executive Council and Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. He had served as Chairman of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee and the Land Development Corporation. He had served as Vice Chairman of the Council of the HK University of Science and Technology, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Review of Inland Revenue and as member of the Law Reform Commission, the Securities Commission, the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, the Banking Advisory Committee and Judicial Service Commission. He is Vice Chairman of the Council of St. Paul's Co-Educational College. He is a trustee of the Friends of Tsinghua University Law School Charitable Trust and a Guest Professor of the Tsinghua University.

Chief Justice Li's awards include Honorary Degrees awarded by the HK University of Science & Technology (1993); the Baptist University (1994); the Open University of Hong Kong (1997); the University of Hong Kong (2001); the Griffith University (2001), the University of New South Wales (2002), the University of Technology, Sydney (2005) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2006). He was made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1997 and an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge in 1999.

Chief Justice Li is married with 2 daughters.