Wai-Chan Chan is the Managing Director of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and brings to the role more than 25 years of retail and FMCG experience globally, with a particular focus on Asia and Greater China.
Prior to joining the CGF, he was a senior partner at various consulting firms including McKinsey & Company and OC&C Strategy Consultants, where he served clients primarily in the grocery, health and beauty sectors on a broad range of strategic, operational and organisational issues. Wai-Chan also served as the North Asia Regional Director for retailer Dairy Farm where he ran the Wellcome, 7-Eleven and Mannings banners. He has also served as a non-executive director, most recently on the board of Bellamy’s Organic, a leading infant nutrition supplier based in Australia.
Wai-Chan holds a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a British American Chamber of Commerce Scholar, and a BSc (Hons) from Imperial College.