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IVAN FONG
Ivan Fong is Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of the
3M Company. In that role, he oversees all legal, legal policy, compliance and global security matters for the company. Prior to joining 3M in October 2012, Ivan was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate
to serve as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He
was previously Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health,
Inc.; Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GE Vendor Financial Services; and GE’s first Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel, Information Technology. Ivan also previously served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, and a partner with the firm of Covington & Burling. He began his legal career as 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 U.S. Supreme Court.
Ivan is active in his community and currently serves on the boards of Equal Justice Works and Minnesota Public Radio. He has been named one of “America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel” by the National Law Journal and is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He has received, among other honors, the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; the Justice- in-Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association.
Ivan 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. in chemical engineering and S.M. in chemical engineering practice from MIT, where he was chairman of the MIT student newspaper and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a registered patent attorney.