Dr. Ko is an orthopaedic surgeon. Dr. Ko holds the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from HKU in 1981. He received a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom in 1986 and was awarded a degree of Master of Health Administration from The University of New South Wales, Australia in 1993. He became a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in the specialty of Orthopaedic Surgery and in the specialty of Community Medicine (Administrative Medicine) in 1993 and 2000, respectively. In 2002, he became a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Ko is a non-official member of the Executive Council of the Government of HKSAR and a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He was the Secretary for Food and Health Bureau of the Government of HKSAR from 2012 to 2017. He was appointed as Justice of the Peace in 2001 and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star and Gold Bauhinia Star in 2008 and 2017, respectively.
Dr. Ko is an independent non-executive director of The People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited (stock code: 1339).