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General Counsel
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Bio
Ivan K. Fong was confirmed by the Senate in May 2009 to be General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he is the chief legal officer and leads over 1,700 lawyers in the Department’s headquarters and operating components. Prior to joining the Department, Ivan was the Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health, Inc., where he was named one of the “Most Influential General Counsel” by the National Law Journal. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GE Vendor Financial Services and before that was GE’s first Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel, Information Technology. He has also served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice; a partner with the law firm of Covington & Burling; and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ivan clerked for Judge Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a former chair of the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law, chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and director of the Pro Bono Partnership and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He received a B.C.L. with first class honors from Oxford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar; a J.D. (with distinction) from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review; and an S.B. and S.M. in chemical engineering from MIT. He is a registered patent attorney.