Margaret Chan

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Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE MD JP is the Director-General of the World Health Organization. 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, representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases. As of 2014, she is ranked as the 30th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes.

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1947
British Hong Kong

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Professional degrees of public health, National University of Singapore
( - 1985)
Doctor of Medicine, University of Western Ontario
( - 1977)
Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario
Home Economics
( - 1973)

Employment

Director-General, World Health Organization
(2006/11/08 - )
World Health Organization
(2003/08 - )
Medical Officer
(1978/12 - 1989/11)
Deputy Director, Hong Kong Department of Health
(1992/04 - 1994/06)
Assistant Director, Hong Kong Department of Health
(1989/11 - 1992/04)
Director, Hong Kong Department of Health
(1994/06 - 2003/08)

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on July 23, 2013

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