Derek Kan

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Derek Kan
Governor of the United States Postal Service
Assumed office
May 20, 2022
Appointed byJoe Biden
Preceded byJohn McLeod Barger
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office
July 30, 2020 – December 2020
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byRussell Vought
Succeeded byShalanda Young
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy
In office
December 4, 2017 – July 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBlair Anderson
Succeeded byCarlos Monje
Member of the Amtrak Board of Directors
In office
December 15, 2015 – c. May 2019
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byNancy A. Naples
Succeeded byJoel Szabat
Personal details
Born
Derek Tai-Ching Kan

(1978-08-15) August 15, 1978 (age 45)[1]
Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Southern California (BA)
London School of Economics (MS)
Stanford University (MBA)
Derek Kan
Traditional Chinese甘達慶
Simplified Chinese甘达庆

Derek Tai-Ching Kan (Chinese: 甘達慶; born August 15, 1978) is an American business executive and government official who has served as a Governor of the United States Postal Service since 2022. He served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget between July and December 2020. Kan also served as the under secretary of transportation for policy from 2017 to 2019.

Career[edit]

Prior to assuming his Transportation Department position, he was the general manager of the Southern California region for Lyft. In 2015, he was nominated by President Barack Obama to be a board member of Amtrak, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.[2] In April 2017, Kan was nominated by President Donald Trump to become under secretary of transportation for policy in the United States Department of Transportation.[3] He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 13, 2017.[4]

Kan previously worked as director of strategy at Genapsys, a biotech startup in Silicon Valley, as a management consultant at Bain & Company, as an advisor at Elliott Management Corporation, as a policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and as chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee.[5][6] He was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget.[7]

The Trump administration briefly considered Kan for a Federal Reserve position.[8] In July 2019, Kan resigned from his position in the Department of Transportation to take on the position of executive associate director at the Office of Management and Budget.[9]

In July 2020, Kan was confirmed by the Senate to become to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. He left the position in December 2020.

In November 2021, President Biden announced he would appoint Kan to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.[10] On May 12, 2022, his nomination was confirmed in the United States Senate by voice vote.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "(Not applicable)". Washington, D.C.: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  2. ^ Primack, Dan (January 21, 2016). "Amtrak's Newest Board Member Works at Lyft". Fortune. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  3. ^ della Cava, Marco (April 6, 2017). "Trump nominates Lyft exec to join Transportation Department". USA Today. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  4. ^ "Derek Kan | US Department of Transportation". Archived from the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  5. ^ Dickey, Megan Rose (April 6, 2017). "Trump plans to nominate Lyft's Derek Kan to transportation department". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  6. ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Derek Kan to the Department of Transportation". whitehouse.gov. April 6, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017 – via National Archives.
  7. ^ Zanona, Melanie (April 7, 2017). "Trump taps Lyft manager for No. 3 spot at Transportation Department". The Hill. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  8. ^ "White House Considering Derek Kan for Federal Reserve Board Seat". Bloomberg.com. May 17, 2019.
  9. ^ "Under Secretary Leaves DOT for OMB". www.enotrans.org. February 2, 2024.
  10. ^ "Biden replaces Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board".
  11. ^ "PN1425 - Nomination of Derek Kan for United States Postal Service, 117th Congress (2021-2022)". www.congress.gov. May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
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