Alex Wan is the District 6 member of the Atlanta City Council.

Alex currently serves as Assistant Vice President of Community Affairs at Emory University. In this role, Alex leads Emory's efforts to build strong, supportive partnerships with local government leaders and community organizations throughout metro Atlanta, advancing Emory's contribution, presence, and recognition as a higher education partner in the community.

Alex previously served as the executive director of Horizons Atlanta, a nonprofit organization that provides tuition-free summer enrichment programs focused on literacy, mathematics, and swim skills to K-8 students in the metro Atlanta area. Prior to joining Horizons Atlanta, he served as Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Emory University, and before that as Director of Development at Jerusalem House (now Status: Home), Atlanta’s largest HIV housing provider.

Alex previously represented the in-town neighborhoods of District 6 on the Atlanta City Council for two four-year terms from 2010-2018. During his tenure, he chaired the Finance-Executive, Zoning, and Utilities committees, and served as Council President Pro Tempore in 2015. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Piedmont Park Conservancy and previously served on the boards of Atlanta Regional Commission, Invest Atlanta, Fulton Board of Registration and Elections as chair, Leadership DeKalb, Little Five Points Community Improvement District, Olmsted Linear Park Alliance, and Organization of Chinese Americans GA.

Alex holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an Master of Business Administration degree from Wharton Business School and has also completed educational programs at Dartmouth College and Harvard University.

After growing up in Stone Mountain, Alex now lives in Morningside where he has been a homeowner since 1994.