Candy Chan is a senior curriculum development officer in the Education Bureau with the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, where she leads development of the cross-disciplinary senior secondary core subject of liberal studies which is pivotal to students' application of knowledge and skills. She started her career as a secondary school teacher and joined the Education Bureau of HKSAR in 2007 and has since been engaged in curriculum development and school support work. She is a key player in the development of project learning and generic skills descriptors at the junior secondary level. She is experienced in planning for the curriculum interface, better learning and teaching. She obtained her master's degree in education from the University of Hong Kong in 2005. Since then, she has completed the Leadership Development Program in 2013 and Management Development Program in 2016 at the School of Business and Management, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.