Samuel Chu, President

Samuel Chu is the founder and President of the Campaign for Hong Kong.

Most recently, Samuel was the founding and managing director of Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), the first-ever Washington DC-based, nonpartisan nonprofit for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and Hong Kongers in the US.

While leading HKDC, Samuel successfully advocated for the passage of landmark legislation such as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, and numerous other policies supporting Hong Kong.

In direct response, Hong Kong authorities issued arrest warrants against Samuel in July 2020, making him the first foreign citizen to be targeted under the National Security Law. In July 2021, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against HKDC, making it the first foreign entity to be targeted under the new anti-sanctions law.

A first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong, Samuel is the son of the Rev. Chu Yiu Ming, co-founder of Occupy Central that led to the Umbrella Movement in 2014. The elder Chu was later tried, convicted, and sentenced on protest-related charges in 2019.