Dr Fan joined Asian Development Bank, Pakistan Resident Mission as Country Director on 14 October 2024.  Prior to this position, she served as Director of the Finance Sector Office, Sectors Group, at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), covering operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.

Dr Fan was the Director of the Public Management, Financial Sector, and Regional Cooperation Division (EAPF) in the East Asia Department from 2019 to 2023. Prior to EAPF, she was the Regional Director for ADB’s Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO) in Sydney from June 2016.

At ADB, she also worked as the Head of ADB’s Results Management Unit at the Strategy and Policy Department (SPD). Her other ADB experience included working as a project team leader at the South Asian and Central Asian regional departments, as a Principal Policy and Planning Specialist at SPD, and as an economist at the Economic Research Department.

Before joining ADB, Dr Fan worked as a Policy Advisor at the Department of Finance and Administration in Australia, an Economist at the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, and a researcher at Lanzhou University in the People's Republic of China. She has a PhD degree in Economics from the Australian National University and a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree of Science from Lanzhou University in China.