Albert Ho
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = | name = Albert Ho Chun-yan | native_name = | native_name_lang = zh | image = File:Lee-cheuk-yan-confirmed-legco-by-election-candidacy-4 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Albert Ho in 2018 | office2 =Member of the Legislative Council | constituency4 = District Council (Second) | term_start4 = 1 October 2012 | term_end4 = 30 September 2016 | predecessor4 = New constituency | successor4 = Roy Kwong | constituency3 = New Territories West | term_start3 = 1 July 1998 | term_end3 = 30 September 2012 | predecessor3 = New parliament | successor3 = Kwok Ka-ki | constituency2 = New Territories West | term_start2 = 11 October 1995 | term_end2 = 30 June 1997 | predecessor2 = New constituency | successor2 = Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council | office1= Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China | deputy1=Richard TsoiMak Hoi-wahChow Hang-tung | term_start1=15 December 2014 | term_end1= 8 December 2019 | predecessor1=Lee Cheuk-yan | successor1 = Lee Cheuk-yan | office = Chairman of the Democratic Party | term_start = 17 December 2006 | term_end = 10 September 2012 | predecessor = Lee Wing-tat | successor = Emily Lau | birth_date = | birth_place = British Hong Kong | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | party = Hong Kong Affairs Society United Democrats Democratic Party | residence = | spouse = Tang Suk-yee | alma_mater = University of Hong Kong | occupation = Solicitor}} Albert Ho Chun-yan (; born 1 December 1951) is a solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. He is the former chairman (2014–2019) and vice-chair (2019–2021) of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and former chairman of the Democratic Party from 2006 to 2012. He is a solicitor and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for District Council (Second) constituency. Early life and education Ho was born in what was then British Hong Kong on 1 December 1951 in a big family with six children. His father worked in a shipping company by day and as a translator by night, along with two other jobs that he had. Ho got his Bachelor of Laws with honors in the University of Hong Kong in 1974, and obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in 1975. He attended lectures given by Hsu Kwan-san, a Chinese historian who later became a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, whom Ho cited as influence for his political beliefs and Chinese national sentiment. During his college life, he developed his liberal ideals, got actively involved in student politics and campaigned for Mak Hoi-wah who ran for the Hong Kong University Students' Union against the Maoist nationalists who dominated the student union in the 1970s. Legal and early political career Ho got admission to practice law in 1977 and was appointed a notary public of the common law in 1988. He was employed for Messrs. C.Y. Kwan & Co. as a solicitor for nearly