--- title: Anson Chan | TIME description: Anson Chan was a Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong government, both before and after the city's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. She is also the founder of the Hong Kong 2020 democracy advocacy group. canonical: https://time.com/author/anson-chan/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/anson-chan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Anson Chan ## Anson Chan Anson Chan was a Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong government, both before and after the city's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997\. She is also the founder of the Hong Kong 2020 democracy advocacy group. ## Anson Chan *  Dec 14, 2016 ### [Hong Kong's Democrats Must Fight Rigged Voting System](https://time.com/4601809/hong-kong-election-chief-executive-democracy-anson-chan/) The territory's pro-democracy camp now has more than a quarter of the seats on the electoral committ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 30, 2014 ### [Hong Kong Is Ready for Democracy; China Isn't Ready for a Free Hong Kong](https://time.com/3447838/hong-kong-democracy-china-protests-anson-chan/) China is not ready for a democratically governed Hong Kong it fears it cannot totally control [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/anson-chan/","name":"Anson Chan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/anson-chan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/anson-chan/"},"name":"Anson Chan","jobTitle":null,"description":"Anson Chan was a Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong government, both before and after the city's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. She is also the founder of the Hong Kong 2020 democracy advocacy group.","url":"https://time.com/author/anson-chan/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```