Derek Kan
Derek Tai-Ching Kan is an American business executive and government official who served as the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy from 2017 to 2019 before transferring to the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to assuming his Transportation Department position, he was the general manager of the Southern California region for Lyft, a transportation network company. 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. In April 2017, Kan was nominated by President Donald Trump become Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy in the United States Department of Transportation. 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 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. He was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget.
The Trump administration briefly considered Kan for a Federal Reserve position. In July 2019, Kan resigned from his position at the Department of Transportation to take on the position of Executive Associate Director at the Office of Management and Budget.
