Kevin Chan was appointed Deputy Secretary-General and Secretary-General Designate of McGill University effective July 29, 2013.
Previously, Kevin served as Director of Policy, Parliamentary Affairs and Research in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, an independent Agent of Parliament protecting the privacy rights of Canadians. During his time there, he oversaw the development of the OPC’s policy paper on reforming Canada’s private sector privacy law for the digital age, its guidelines for mobile app developers, its positions on lawful access and social media, and research on emerging digital and privacy issues such as predictive analytics, facial recognition and unmanned aerial vehicles. He was also responsible for managing its $500,000 annual external research fund.
From 2009-11 Kevin was Director of Policy, and Senior Policy Advisor and Transition Secretary, to the Leader of the Opposition. Between 2004-09 he served under two Prime Ministers in the Privy Council Office (the Deparment of the Prime Minister) in various policy and operational capacities, including as Director of the Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada’s highest ranking civil servant. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte.
Kevin is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the Ivey Business School, where he was a President Scholar.
A 2004 Action Canada Fellow, Kevin was awarded the Public Service Award of Excellence in 2006, was selected for the 2008 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, and received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.