Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Traditional Chinese 陳馮富珍 Simplified Chinese 陈冯富珍 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén-Féng Fùzhēn Cantonese Jyutping Can4 Fung4 Fu3 Zan1 Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE MD, DSc, MScPH, FFPHM, JP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). 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.