Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan   (politician)
Born	Margaret Fung Fu-chun 21 August 1947 Hong Kong
Nationality	Chinese, Canadian
The WHO Director General who announced 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic  WHO/Director-General  In office 9 November 2006 - 1 July 2017 Succeeded by Tedros Ghebreyesus announced 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic

Dr Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun is a Chinese-Canadian physician. She was Director-General of the World Health Organisation. Chan had previously worked 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).

Opinions

When asked by the film maker Lilian Franck in 2015 for the documentary TrustWHO, whether she considered stepping down from her position as a director, Dr Chan confirmed the problem that private finance will come with strings attached.

“Lilian Franck: Important donor nations they want a weak WHO. One could even compare WHO to Titanic I would say. So isn't it your responsibility, Dr Chan, to step down before the end of your 2nd term, in order to signal to the world that your organisation, your ship, is sinking.

Margaret Chan: You ask an excellent question. If it tell you, WHO as an organisation, only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds. Other 70 percent I have to take a hat and go around the world, to beg for money. And when they give us the money, they are highly linked to their preferences, what they like. It may not be the priority of WHO. So if we do not solve this, you know (hand gesture), we are not going to be as great as we were.”
Lilian Franck,  Margaret Chan (11 October 2015) 

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	World Economic Forum Switzerland	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".

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