Leo Francis Goodstadt,^[1]CBE, JP (Chinese:顧汝德, 21 April 1938 - 24 April 2020)^[2] was a British economist based inHong Kong. He served as the first head ofCentral Policy Unit, from 1989 to 1997.^[3]

Goodstadt studiedeconomics at theUniversity of Oxford and theUniversity of Manchester, and arrived atHong Kong in 1962 as aCommonwealth Scholar.^[2]

He had a long but intermittent career at theUniversity of Hong Kong (HKU). He was a lecturer in economics from 1964 to 1966; an honorary lecturer in law from 1979 to 1985; an honorary research fellow at its then Centre of Asian Studies (CAS) between 1977 and 1998, and again between 2005 and 2011; and an honorary institute fellow at the institution's Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences since 2011.^[1] In 2001, he was named an HKU Honorary University Fellow.^[4]

In 1989, Goodstadt was appointed by then-Governor SirDavid Wilson as the head of the newly establishedCentral Policy Unit. He kept serving in the role afterChris Patten succeeded Wilson in 1992, and retired following thehandover of Hong Kong in 1997, after which he moved toDublin and became an adjunct professor atTrinity Business School,Trinity College Dublin.^[3]

He was also known for his reporting on Hong Kong, when in 1966 he was the deputy editor of the now-defunctFar Eastern Economic Review for ten years, with coverage specially on Hong Kong and China. Goodstadt served as editorial director of Asiabanking between 1981 and 1986, as well as Hong Kong correspondent forEuromoney (1978-1988) and theTimes (1967-1973).^[5] He has been a regular contributor to theBBC and previously hosted a weekly public affairs program onAsia Television, a local television station, for ten years.^[4]

• Uneasy Partners: The Conflict between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2005.ISBN 978-988-8028-09-2.
• Profits, Politics and Panics: Hong Kong's Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935-1985. Hong Kong University Press. 2007.ISBN 978-962-209-896-1.
• Reluctant Regulators: How the West Created and China Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Hong Kong University Press. 2011.ISBN 978-988-8083-25-1.
• Poverty in the Midst of Affluence: How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Prosperity. Hong Kong University Press. 2013.ISBN 978-988-8208-22-7.
• A City Mismanaged: Hong Kong's Struggle for Survival.Hong Kong University Press. 2018.ISBN 978-988-8528-49-3.

• Rejected immigrants? The Chinese connection.Hong Kong Law Journal 4:223–41 (1974).
• The overseas Chinese: A model of stability.The Round Table 65(259):251–62 (1975).
• Official Targets, Data and Policies for China's Population Growth: An Assessment.Population and Development Review 4(2):255-275 (1978).
• Taxation and Economic Modernization in Contemporary China.Development and Change, 10(3):403-421 (1979).
• Hong Kong: An attachment to democracy.The Round Table 87(348):485–503 (1998).
• China and the Selection of Hong Kong's Post-Colonial Political Elite.China Quarterly 163:721–41 (2000).
• The Rise and Fall of Social, Economic and Political Reforms in Hong Kong, 1930–1955.Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 44:57–81 (2004).
• Fiscal freedom and the making of Hong Kong's capitalist society.China Information 24(3):273–94 (2010).
• TheHong Kong e-Identity Card: Examining the Reasons for Its Success When Other Cards Continue to Struggle.Information Systems Management 32(1):72–80 (2015). (with Regina Connolly and Frank Bannister)

• Justice of the peace (JP) (1983)
• Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) (1996)
• University of Hong Kong Honorary Fellow (2001)
• Trinity College Dublin Honorary Fellow (2015)^[6]

Goodstadt married Rose Young on 19 April 1965 atSt. Theresa's Church.^[7] Rose, a social worker, worked for many years at theSocial Welfare Department, eventually serving as deputy director of Social Welfare. She also founded theHong Kong Society for the Aged (SAGE), and was a co-founder of the Association of Female Senior Government Officers, a powerful staff association that campaigned for equal treatment of men and women in the Hong Kong civil service.^[8][9]

The couple had a son, John. John graduated fromWah Yan College, Hong Kong in 1987. He is currently a professor inphysiology at Oxford University.

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