Chan Kam-lam, GBS, JP (Chinese: 陳鑑林; born 22 January 1949) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the Kowloon East constituency.
Chan has been viewed as playing a pivotal decision-making role within DAB, pushing the party to field its own candidates in chief executive elections.
He moved to Hong Kong with his parents when he was around 8 or 9 and lived in a squatter area in his childhood before they were assigned to a resettlement estate in Kwun Tong.
For his local influence, he was invited to join the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the flagship pro-Beijing party established in 1992.
[5] On 11 March 2016, as acting chairman, he presided over the meeting of the Finance Committee at which HK$19.6 billion in additional funding for the controversial Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) project was approved in a sudden vote in the face of fierce protest and filibustering attempts from democratic camp legislators.