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General Counsel
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Bio
Ivan K. Fong was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in May 2009. As General Counsel, Ivan is the chief legal officer for the Department, is responsible for advising Secretary Napolitano and her senior leadership on all significant legal, policy, and operational issues, 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., a $91 billion global healthcare company, where he was named one of the “Twenty Most Influential General Counsel” by the National Law Journal. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GE Vendor Financial Services and prior to that was GE’s first Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel, Information Technology. Ivan has also served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice; a partner with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.; and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was a law clerk to Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court of the U.S.

Ivan holds a B.C.L. with first class honors from Oxford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He received his J.D. (with distinction) from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review, and an S.B. in chemical engineering and an S.M. in chemical engineering practice from MIT.