Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan | |
|---|---|
陳馮富珍 | |
Chan in 2011 | |
| 7th Director-General of the World Health Organization | |
| In office 9 November 2006 – 1 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Anders Nordström (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| 4th Director of Health, Hong Kong | |
| In office 6 June 1994 – 20 August 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Lee Shu-Hung |
| Succeeded by | Lam Ping-Yan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Margaret Fung Fu-chun 21 August 1947 |
| Spouse | David Chan |
| Alma mater | Northecote College of Education (Cert) University of Western Ontario (BA, MD) National University of Singapore (MS) |
| Margaret Chan | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 陳馮富珍 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈冯富珍 | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun (born 21 August 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian physician and politician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China from 2006 to 2017. Chan previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
She was widely criticized for her handling of the 1997 H5N1 avian influenza outbreak and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, and for her frequent travels while serving as Director-General of the WHO.