Paulo Martins Chan, an assistant public prosecutor general in Macau, will be the next head of the Macau gaming regulator.

He will replace Manuel Joaquim das Neves as director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau when the latter retires next week.

Chan has a bachelor’s degree in law and a master’s degree in criminal law. He was nominated as a magistrate for the Public Prosecutions Office in 1999 by former Macau chief executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah.