Leo Goodstadt

Leo Francis Goodstadt, (, 21 April 1938 - 24 April 2020) was a British economist based in Hong Kong. He served as the first head of Central Policy Unit, from 1989 to 1997.

Life Goodstadt studied economics at the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester, and arrived at Hong Kong in 1962 as a Commonwealth Scholar.

In 1989, Goodstadt was appointed by then-Governor Sir David Wilson as the head of the newly established Central Policy Unit. He kept serving in the role after Chris Patten succeeded Wilson in 1992, and retired following the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, after which he moved to Dublin and became an adjunct professor at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He has been a regular contributor to the BBC and previously hosted a weekly public affairs program on Asia Television, a local television station, for ten years.

Family Goodstadt married Rose Young on 19 April 1965 at St. Theresa's Church. Rose, a social worker, worked for many years at the Social Welfare Department, eventually serving as deputy director of Social Welfare. She also founded the Hong 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.

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