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About Michael Rowse
- Michael "Mike" John Treloar Rowse (Chinese: ???) (b.
- (1948-12-21)21 December 1948) is a Hong Kong public figure.
- A naturalised citizen of the People's Republic of China, Rowse was the Director-General of InvestHK, a department of the Hong Kong Government. Rowse was one of the few foreign-born civil servants in the post-handover Hong Kong Government.
- He is best known for having negotiated the Hong Kong Disneyland deal on behalf of the government in November 1999 in which the government became the park's largest shareholder; he thus received the nickname "Mickey Rowse", an allusion to the Disney character.
- Rowse then set up InvestHK, and was appointed its Director General on 1 July 2000.
- As head of the agency, he became involved in Harbour Fest, an event to promote Hong Kong in the aftermath of the SARS outbreak in 2003 which became a topic of controversy due to its cost over-runs.
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