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Written by: Chen Shuxia
2020-09-29 18:06
Last update date: 2020-09-29 18:34
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has another personnel change. Chief Executive Duncan Warren Pescod has already submitted his resignation. According to sources, he will officially resign at the end of November this year without completing the second term of office. Global recruitment will be launched later to find the next successor as soon as possible.
Pak Chigo attended the meeting of the Board of Directors of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority as usual today, where his resignation was discussed.
It is understood that Bai Zhigao also admitted to everyone at the meeting that he had resigned, but did not mention the reason for his resignation.
According to a source, the Pa Chico contract was originally scheduled to expire in August next year, but the government hopes that he will leave early, that is, the resignation of Pa Chico may not be voluntary.
Pai Zhigao attended the meeting of the Board of Directors of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority as usual today, where he explained his resignation.
(Photo by Zhang Jiamin)
Bo Zhigao is a Hong Kong native of British descent. He joined the Authority in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer. He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in August of the following year to replace Michael Lynch, who resigned. It is known that he will Formally resigned on August, that is, his career in the West Kowloon Cultural District Administration Bureau lasted 5 years and 3 months.
Bai Zhigao sent an email to employees: The government asked him to leave early
"Hong Kong 01" obtained part of the internal e-mail content sent by Pa Chico to the staff of the West Kowloon Cultural District. Pa Chico stated that in July this year, he informed the chairman of the Board of Directors of West Kowloon, Tang Yingnian, of his wishes. The two parties have agreed to wait until the end of the contract in August next year. .
Unfortunately, Tang Yingnian conveyed the government's instructions to him, stating that the government had decided to ask him to leave office early, so he agreed to leave office early at the end of November.
Pak Chigo is a retired senior official who has served in various departments of the Hong Kong Government for more than 33 years, including the former Civil Affairs Branch, the former Security Branch, the Lands Department, the former Urban Services Department, the former City and Administration Department, and the former Civil Service Bureau.
He served as the Permanent Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (Communications and Technology) from 2008 to 2010, and as the Permanent Secretary for Transport and Housing (Housing) and Director of Housing from 2010 to 2014.
Regarding the qualifications of the next candidate, He Qingji, a visiting professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at CUHK, believes that the CEO should focus on administrative skills such as operation and finance, while artistic decisions can be handed over to experts. In the future, flexible operation and creativity are needed. Operation, government bureaucratic influence dominates, and the board of directors has not been able to recruit professionals from all sides. At this difficult time and the operational structure, I believe that the successor needs to have a certain degree of resilience.
Some theater directors believe that it is difficult to hope that West Kowloon can change the entire Hong Kong art environment, but hope that the next CEO will be closer to the ground and lead West Kowloon to be more transparent.
Some people from West Kowloon Middle School expect that if the future candidates focus on business operations and financial management, they should be assisted by art professionals, and vice versa, so as not to tilt the leadership policy.
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In the evening, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority issued a press release stating that under the condition that the Authority and the Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bo Zhigao both agree, the board of directors of the Authority has approved the terms of appointment of Mr. Bo Zhigao, which will end on November 28, 2020.
The spokesperson also pointed out that Tang Yingnian, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority, praised Bo Zhigao for doing his best to realize the development of the West Kowloon Cultural District project in the past six years.
The Authority will conduct global recruitment in an open and transparent manner to identify the successor to the Chief Executive Officer. In addition, the Authority will seek secondment from the government as a transitional arrangement. Details will be announced in due course.
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