Sónia Chan Hoi Fan , was the Secretary for Administration and Justice, second most senior government official in Macau.
Chan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on December 1964. She received a bachelor's degree in Law from Sun Yat-sen University. In 2000, she attended Renmin University of China in Beijing and earned a master's degree in Criminal Law. Chan was the chairperson of the Female Civil Servants Association from 1999 to 2010 and the director of the Alumni Association of Macao Academy Education Fund Society since 1992.
She has been with the Macau civil service since 1994 having served in various positions:
Head of the Division of Criminal Record under the Identification Services Bureau , 1994-1998
Deputy Director of the Identification Services Bureau , 1998-2010
Coordinator of the Office for Personal Data Protection, 2007-2014 Wikipedia
“Universal suffrage is one kind of democracy, but it is not the only way of democracy.”
Sonia Chan (2019) cited in " Secretary Sonia Chan Backed into Corner Over Political Reform https://macaudailytimes.com.mo/secretary-sonia-chan-backed-into-corner-over-political-reform.html" on Macau Daily Times, 7 August 2019
