COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
MARGARET
CHAN
Citizenship/Residence
China
Geneva , Switzerland
Margaret is the DirectorGeneral of the World Health
Organization (WHO). Chan
is an imperative leader of the
global health organization
responsible for eradicating
communicable diseases,
including HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria, and
other vaccine-preventable
diseases. She 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.
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