Sandy Lau Sin-ting

Biography

Sandy Lau Sin-ting is a Hong Kong philanthropist born on 24 January 1986. She attended St. Paul's Secondary School and graduated from University College London with a degree in Economics, later working as a securities analyst at Goldman Sachs. She won the Miss Hong Kong 2009 title and represented Hong Kong at the Miss World 2009 pageant. She worked as a TV host and guest actress at TVB before retiring in 2014 to focus on her family. She served as Executive Committee Chairperson of the charitable organization Wai Yin Association in two separate terms and currently chairs several charitable and educational organizations she co-founded, including the Chinese Language Education Promotion Fund and the Chinese London Association. In 2023, she was named one of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons, becoming the second Miss Hong Kong to receive this honour 35 years after Margaret Cheung. In 2025, she was awarded the government's Medal of Honour (MH), making her the first Miss Hong Kong in history to receive this distinction.