Alex Man-Tat Ng
Deputy Director
China Country Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Honorary Assistant Professor
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Council Member
Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health

Dr. Alexander Ng leads a team that works to build health partnerships with key stakeholders in China, including the Chinese government, the private sector and global health actors. Their aim is to identify, develop and deliver high-quality, low-cost health products for use in developing countries, in order to tackle endemic diseases and other urgent health needs. Alex’s team also works with local partners to design and deliver programs that address domestic health challenges such as TB.

Alex joined the foundation in 2015 after 9 years at McKinsey & Co., where he was an Associate Partner. From 2011 to 2015 Alex co-led McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice and Corporate Finance Practice in China, where he served public, private and social sector clients on strategy, health system reform, operations transformation and investments.

Alex completed his undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a postgraduate diploma in Health Informatics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. From 2004 to 2005 he served as Chief Resident at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital – a tertiary referral hospital for south Pacific, before beginning an MPH in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health which he completed in 2006.

Since 2010, Alex has served as Honorary Professor of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong and he has also been a Council Member of Hong Kong Council of Smoking and Health since 2012.