article_snippet.sent: By the time MARGARET CHAN MARGARET CHAN steps down from MARGARET CHAN role as Director General of the World Health Organisation in 2017, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG will have served ten years in one of the most influential positions in health.
article_snippet.sent: Originally from China, MARGARET CHAN was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong before being elevated to the top position for the WHO in 2006.
article_snippet.sent: MARGARET CHAN MARGARET CHAN has had to manage responses to global panics such as SARS, bird flu and Ebola.
article_snippet.sent: Forbes lists MARGARET CHAN as the 30th most powerful woman in the world.