Ivan Kenneth Fong (born August 3, 1961)
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for the Department of Homeland Security
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. He was general counsel of 3M company from October 2012 until February 2022, when he became executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Medtronic
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Education
Fong earned a bachelor's in chemical engineering
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and a master's in chemical engineering practice from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. He went on to Stanford Law School
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where he was President of the ''Stanford Law Review
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'' and graduated with a juris doctor
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with honors in 1987. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship
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and studied at Oxford
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, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law
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(a graduate degree) with first class honours
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Career
He was a law clerk
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to Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
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and then became a clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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of the United States Supreme Court
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from 1989 to 1990.
In the private sector, he was general counsel of GE Vendor Financial Services and later joined Cardinal Health
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in 2005 as chief legal officer. A National Law Journal
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profile credits him with reorganizing the legal department of Cardinal and clearing a docket swamped by two dozen major lawsuits.
He was sworn in as general counsel of Homeland Security in May 2009.
He was hired as Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel of The 3M Company, on October 15, 2012.
See also
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References
External links
Full bio 3M
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Archived Homeland Security Bio
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1961 births
Alumni of the University of Oxford
American lawyers of Chinese descent
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Lawyers who have represented the United States government
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Lawyers from New York City
Stanford Law School alumni