John James Cowperthwaite
Sir John James Cowperthwaite | |
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| Financial Secretary of Hong Kong | |
| In office 17 April 1961 – 30 June 1971 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor | Sir Robert Black Sir David Trench |
| Preceded by | Arthur Grenfell Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Charles Philip Haddon-Cave |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 April 1915 |
| Died | 21 January 2006 (aged 90) |
| Spouse | Sheila Mary Thomson |
| Children | John James Hamish Cowperthwaite |
| Alma mater | Merchiston Castle School St Andrews University Christ's College, Cambridge |
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| Traditional Chinese | 郭伯偉 | ||||||||
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Sir John James Cowperthwaite, KBE, CMG (Chinese: 郭伯偉爵士; 25 April 1915 – 21 January 2006), was a British civil servant who served as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. His introduction of free-market economic policies are widely credited with turning postwar Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre. During Cowperthwaite's tenure as Financial Secretary, real wages in Hong Kong rose by 50%, and the portion of the population in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%.