Margaret Chan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Director-General of the World Health Organization
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Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
About Margaret Chan
- This is a Hong Kong name; Fung is the maiden name and Chan is the married name.Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, (born August 21, 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–2017.
- 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).
- In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world.
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