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Margaret Chan

Chinese-Canadian physician (born 1947)

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Preceded by: Anders Nordström (acting)
Succeeded by: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Born: Margaret Fung Fu-chun , ( 1947-08-21 ) 21 August 1947 (age 78) , British Hong Kong
Spouse: David Chan
Alma mater: Northecote College of Education ( Cert ), University of Western Ontario ( BA , MD ), National University of Singapore ( MS )

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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.