CARRIE LAM
JOB: Chief Executive of Hong Kong
REPUTATION: Yea-sayer to Beijing’s authoritarianism
No-one can accuse Carrie Lam of not taking her duties seriously. She shows an almost obsessive dedication to maintaining law and order and imposing a ruthless Chinese sovereignty over a recalcitrant Hong Kong. She is a notorious micro-manager, unwilling to allow even a modicum of autonomy to her subordinates. She boasts of having to sleep only three to five hours a
