Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan
陳馮富珍
Margaret Chan at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2011
7th Director General of the World Health Organization
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 January 2007
Preceded by	Anders Nordström (Acting)
4th Director of Health, Hong Kong
In office June 1994 ─ 20 August 2003
Preceded by	Lee Shu-Hung
Succeeded by	Lam Ping-Yan
Personal details
Born	(1947-08-21) 21 August 1947 (age 69) British Hong Kong
Nationality	Hong Kong Canadian
Spouse(s)	David Chan
Alma mater	Northcote College of Education University of Western Ontario National University of Singapore
Religion	Anglican

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP (born August 21 1947) is a Hong Kong-Canadian physician, who serves as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–17. Chan was elected by the Executive Board of WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). As of 2014, she is ranked as the 30th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes.

Born in Hong Kong, Margaret Chan was initially trained as a Home Economics teacher at the Northcote College of Education. She then earned her BA degree in Home Economics and her MD degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and 1977, respectively, as well as her MSc (Public Health) degree at the National University of Singapore in 1985. Chan completed the Program for Management Development (PMD 61) at Harvard Business School in 1991. In 1997, she was given the distinction for the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.