Carlos Cheung

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Carlos Cheung
MP
張雋浩
File:Cheung, Carlos - Mt Roskill (cropped).png
Cheung in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Mount Roskill
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 October 2023
Preceded byMichael Wood
Personal details
Born
Hong Kong
PartyNational
ProfessionMedical researcher, property management
Scientific career
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
ThesisAcquired copper imbalance in diabetes-induced cardiac disease: Molecular mechanisms and reversibility (2013)
Doctoral advisors

Chun Ho Carlos Cheung (Chinese: 張雋浩; Cantonese Yale: Jēung Jeun-houh) is a New Zealand politician. He was elected as a Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for Mount Roskill, representing the National Party, in the 2023 New Zealand general election. Cheung has worked as a medical researcher and owned two property management companies.

Career

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Cheung was born in Hong Kong and moved to New Zealand as a teenager. He attended Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland, where he studied science and eventually graduated with a PhD in biological science. His 2013 thesis was on diabetes-induced cardiac disease, and his doctoral advisors were Garth Cooper and Shaoping Zhang.[1] He worked as a medical researcher but decided to leave research due to difficulty finding funding.[2] He set up Lifestyle Property Management in 2014 and later started a second company, Enfield Property Management.[3][2]

Political career

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New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2023–present 54th Mount Roskill 48 National

Cheung was announced as National's candidate for Mount Roskill in March 2023[3] and was also a National Party list candidate, ranked 48th. On election night, Cheung won the electorate with an 1,564-vote lead over incumbent Michael Wood.[4][5] Mount Roskill had been regarded as a safe seat for Labour, with Wood holding a majority of 14,000 votes in the 2020 election, leading to Cheung's win being called "one of the stand out upsets of the election".[6][7] Cheung is the second Chinese-born MP to hold an electorate seat in New Zealand, the first being Pansy Wong.[8]

Views and positions

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Cheung stated that he plans to "reduce cost-of-living pressures and restore law and order in our community".[8] He also planned to reduce costs for landlords.[2]

Personal life

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He is married to Fiona Lai, who was elected as a Communities and Residents candidate to the Puketāpapa Local Board in 2019 and 2022.[9][10] They live in Mount Roskill.[7]

References

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