Cyd HO Sau-lan, Member of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong

Cyd Ho has been re-elected as a councillor of Hong Kong's Legislative Council in 2008. Between 1998 and 2004 she had already served in the Legislative Council. Ho studied at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She worked in the textile trading industry from 1979 to 1995.  In 1993, she founded the United Ants with other pro-democracy political activists. She was a member and co-founder of The Frontier, a pro-democracy political group in Hong Kong. She served as a District Councillor and in 2006 became the chairperson of Human Rights Monitor in Hong Kong and the co-convener of Project Civil Referendum, a scheme to pilot and promote the idea of holding a referendum in Hong Kong. She is well-known for promoting universal suffrage, rule of law, human rights, and equal opportunity, as well as advancement in the interests of women, homosexuals and other minority groups.