David Gan

    David Gan
    David Gan
    Chief Legal Officer

    David Gan
    Chief Legal Officer

    Education
    Juris Doctorate
    University of California,Hastings

    Master of Business Administration
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The Anderson School of Management

    Bachelor of Science,
    Management Science
    University of California, San Diego

    Professional Affiliations
    Institute for Corporate Counsel
    Member, Advisory Board

    Association of Corporate
    Counsel’s Executive
    Leadership Institute Fellow

    Honors
    Public Company (>$1 billion)
    Corporate Counsel award,
    Los Angeles Business Journal

    Southern California Top 50 Diverse Leader, California
    Diversity Council

     

    David Gan is Chief Legal Officer at AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services across the project lifecycle – from planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.

    In this role, Mr. Gan oversees all aspects of AECOM’s global legal function and leads its team of lawyers, legal and compliance and support professionals across the enterprise. His areas of responsibility include corporate governance, M&A and other transactional legal matters, litigation, ethics and compliance, enterprise risk management, SEC reporting and all legal support of global operations. He is also a member of AECOM’s Executive Leadership Team.

    Previously, Mr. Gan held senior legal roles at AECOM, including Deputy General Counsel, AECOM and General Counsel, AECOM Capital. Prior to joining AECOM in 2006, Mr. Gan was a corporate and securities lawyer at Mayer Brown LLP in Los Angeles and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. in Palo Alto.

    Mr. Gan has been named as one of Southern California’s Top 50 Diverse Leaders by the California Diversity Council. He is an Advisory Board member for USC Gould School of Law and Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Institute for Corporate Counsel.

    On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, energy and the environment, AECOM’s public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical expertise and innovation, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.3 billion in fiscal year 2021. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.