President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate a USC graduate who was the general manager for Lyft in Southern California as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Derek Kan has been the executive associate director of the Office of Management and Budget since last July. He was the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy in the U.S. Department of Transportation from November 2017 to July 2019, and a senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Transportation between June and November 2017.
Before joining the Trump administration, he was the general manager of Lyft in the greater Los Angeles area from July 2015 to June 2017; director of strategy at GenapSys in Redwood City from July 2014 to July 2015; and a management consultant at Bain & Co. in Los Angeles between July 2012 and July 2014.
He also served as a director of the Amtrak board and worked as a policy adviser to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and as chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee, along with serving as a presidential management fellow at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Kan graduated from USC in 1999 with a business administration degree, and subsequently received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate school of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.