constituency birth_place other_names office birth_date term_start majority article_title name
district 6 columbia , south carolina , u.s. wan si-chi member of the atlanta city council 13 august 1967 2009 5,617 -lrb- 60 % -rrb- alex wan
 alex si-chi wan
alex wan

alex si-chi wan -lrb- -rrb- is an american politician .
he is the first asian american member of the atlanta city council , elected to the position for district 6 in the november 2009 municipal election .
he speaks both english and mandarin chinese .
in 2009 , wan ran for the open city council seat in district 6 against several candidates including bahareh azizi , steve brodie , tad christian , liz coyle , and miguel gallegos .
wan and second place finisher liz coyle entered a run off .
wan was endorsed by fourth-place finisher steve brodie , a gay man who campaigned for the seat in 2005 against then-incumbent and also openly-gayanne fauver , as well as the victory fund , georgia equality , buckhead coalition and gay educator charles stadtlander .
of the six initial contestants in the race for the council seat , wan was the only recipient of an `` excellent '' grade by committee for a better atlanta .
wan graduated with a bachelor of engineering degree in industrial engineering in 1988 , and subsequently went onto wharton school of the university of pennsylvania to obtain a master of business administration degree in finance , graduating in 1993 .
