boycott the NAC. Chan, NAC's chairman, did not warn the organisers, the strictly no-censorship SGIFF, of her talk's contents. Notably, NAC does not even oversee or supervise Singapore's film industry. In February 2016, Chan, who is on the Yale-NUS College governing board, delivered a speech defending Singapore's decision to uphold Section 377A at the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland. Her speech prompted students' calls for Chan's removal from the school's governing board, while others said a removal would be unfair because Chan was speaking as a Singaporean ambassador, not as a governor of the college. The school rejected calls to remove her. Personal life Chan's father was a businessman. She has two brothers and a sister. Her brother Alan Chan was a top civil servant and a former CEO of Singapore Press Holdings while the other brother Chan Heng Wing is also a diplomat and currently serves as Singapore's Ambassador to the Republic of Austria. She was formerly married to architect Tay Kheng Soon. References External links Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador CV The Washington Diplomat Newspaper – Ambassador Profile 1942 births Living people Singaporean people of Cantonese descent Singaporean women diplomats Academic staff of the National University of Singapore University of Singapore alumni Ambassadors of Singapore to the United States Ambassadors of Singapore to Mexico High Commissioners of Singapore to Canada Permanent Representatives of Singapore to the United Nations Singapore–United States relations Recipients of the Darjah Utama Bakti Cemerlang Recipients of the Pingat Jasa Gemilang Recipients of the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam Cornell University alumni Singaporean women ambassadors