Hazel Chu

Hazel Chung-fai Chu is an Irish Green Party politician who has been a member of Dublin City Council since May 2019. She was elected deputy leader of the Green Party on 28 January 2026. She was chair of the Green Party from December 2019 to December 2021. She was the first Irish-born person of Chinese descent elected to political office on the island of Ireland. She served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2020 to 2021, and in doing so became the first person of Chinese ethnicity to be mayor of a European capital. She is the party's spokesperson for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform, Digitalisation & Media.