Sónia Chan Hoi Fan (; born December 1964) was the

Secretary for Administration and Justice The Secretary for Administration and Justice ( zh, 行政法務司; ) is the most senior cabinet role and key departments in the Government of Macau. When the Chief Executive is on leave, the Secretariat for Administration and Justice, according t ...

from 2014 to 2019, the second most senior government official in

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

. Chan was born in

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

province, in December 1964. She received a bachelor's degree in law from

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (; SYSU) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial Government. The university is p ...

. In 2000, she attended

Renmin University of China The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The ...

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 (DSI), 1994–1998 * Deputy Director of the Identification Services Bureau (DSI), 1998–2010 * Coordinator of the Office for Personal Data Protection, 2007–2014

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1964 births Living people Macau people Government ministers of Macau Macau women in politics Politicians from Guangzhou Renmin University of China alumni Sun Yat-sen University alumni Female justice ministers {{Macau-bio-stub