Chantale Wong
American politician and government official
Chantale Yokmin Wong served as the United States Director of the Asian Development Bank from 2022 to 2025, with the rank of ambassador. Wong is the first out lesbian and the first out LGBTQ person of color to receive the rank of an ambassador.
Early life
Wong was born somewhere in the mid-1950s. As a child, Wong's grandmother "smuggled" her from Shanghai to Hong Kong. She then went to boarding school on the island of Macau. Wong attended middle school in Okinawa, Japan, high school at Academy of Our Lady of Guam in Hagåtña, Guam where she lived with her aunt, uncle, and cousin. In 1980, she received a BS in civil engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and, in 1982, an MS in environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School in 1988.
Government service
She served in a number of positions in the US government. Under Barack Obama, she served as vice president for administration and finance, and CFO, at the Millennium Challenge Corporation from 2011 to 2014.
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