Ir MAK Ka-wai
Assistant Director / Operations and Maintenance
Drainage Services Department
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government

Ir Mak graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1982.  He is currently the Assistant Director/Operations and Maintenance with Drainage Services Department.  Earlier, he was an assistant director with Highways Department looking after the operation and maintenance of highways facilities.  Before taking up the O&M duties, he participated in numerous large-scale drainage and sewerage projects, including the first tertiary sewage treatment plant at Ngong Ping and the 6km long rainwater-intercepting tunnel in Tsuen Wan.  In the 1990s, he spent six years in the then Works Bureau dealing with slope and water policies.  During his earlier years with the Drainage Services Department, Mr Mak received post-graduate training in river engineering in the Netherlands, and then worked in the Shenzhen River Regulation Project.  He obtained a Master of Arts in the area of dispute resolution and arbitration.  On top of his engineering engagements, Ir Mak acquires legal qualification and is a non-practising Barrister-at-law of the High Court of the HKSAR.