Ng Wai Han (pictured in a file photo), the director of Macau’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (also known as DICJ), has been appointed the city’s Secretary for Economy and Finance.
The appointment was confirmed in an official notice published by the Macau government in its official gazette on Monday.
According to the notice, China’s State Council appointed Ms Ng to the post on June 10, following her nomination by Macau’s Chief Executive, Sam Hou Fai.
The notice did not indicate when Ms Ng would formally assume her new duties or who would succeed her as head of the gaming regulator.
Ms Ng succeeds Tai Kin Ip as Secretary for Economy and Finance. Mr Tai left the position earlier this year.
The Secretary for Economy and Finance is one of the principal officials in the Macau government and oversees a portfolio that includes the city’s gaming industry, tourism-related economic development, financial services, labour affairs, consumer protection, taxation and economic policy.
Ms Ng had been appointed to lead the DICJ, the body responsible for regulating Macau’s casino industry, in May 2025.
In May this year, her appointment as DICJ director was renewed for a further year. At the time, an official dispatch said the renewal was based on her “civic integrity” and “professional competence”.
A veteran civil servant, Ms Ng had served as director of the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau immediately before taking charge of the gaming regulator. Prior to that, she spent more than two decades working at the Labour Affairs Bureau.
