Mr Yau joined the Administrative Service in July 1997 and rose to the rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade B1 in April 2022. He has served in various bureaux and departments, including the Home Affairs Department, the former Home Affairs Bureau, the former Environment, Transport and Works Bureau, the Housing Department, the Chief Executive's Office and the Security Bureau. He was Deputy Secretary for Security from March 2016 to December 2018, Deputy Secretary for Development (Planning and Lands) from December 2018 to February 2023 and Director, Preparatory Office for Northern Metropolis since February 2023.
Paul has over 40+ years’ multi-disciplinary design and construction project management experience and has spent the past 30 years working in Hong Kong and Macau. He joined Gammon in 2019 and was appointed Executive Director in 2020 responsible for overseeing the E&M division. In late 2020, Paul was given an expanded role as Chief Technology Officer responsible for IDT, Digital, and BIM business functions and for the Gammon in-house Innovation Incubator, Digital G Limited. Paul is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, and Member of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors.