Derek Tai-Ching Kan (; 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

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between July to December 2020. Kan also served as the under secretary of transportation for policy from 2017 to 2019.

Career

Prior to assuming his Transportation Department position, he was the general manager of the Southern California region for

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. In 2015, he was nominated by President

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to be a board member of

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, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In April 2017, Kan was nominated by President

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to become under secretary of transportation for policy in the

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. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 13, 2017. Kan previously worked as director of strategy at Genapsys, a biotech startup in

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, as a management consultant at

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, as an advisor at

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, as a policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and as chief economist for the

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. He was a Presidential Management Fellow at the

. The Trump administration briefly considered Kan for a

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position. 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. 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

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. On May 12, 2022, his nomination was confirmed in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kan, Derek 1978 births Living people 21st-century American businesspeople Alumni of the London School of Economics American politicians of Chinese descent Amtrak people Bain & Company employees Deputy Directors for Management of the Office of Management and Budget Lyft people Obama administration personnel People from Los Angeles Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Trump administration personnel United States Department of Transportation officials University of Southern California alumni