Stephen Chan is the City of Boston's Chief Partnerships Officer and a member of Mayor Michelle Wu's Cabinet. He leads the Mayor's Office of Partnerships, the City's front door to Boston's unrivaled ecosystem of academic, healthcare, corporate, philanthropic, and cultural institutions. The Office partners with Cabinet leaders to build strategic relationships, convene cross-sector coalitions around shared goals, align resources and expertise, and design, launch, and implement the partnerships and platforms that advance an affordable, green and growing, and family-friendly Boston.

Previously, Stephen served as Chief of Staff to Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun and spent more than a decade at The Boston Foundation, most recently as Vice President of Strategy and Operations and Corporate Secretary. Earlier, as an advisor to Mayor Thomas M. Menino, he launched the Mayor's Office of Food Initiatives (now Food Justice).

Stephen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Stanford University. He has served on the boards of Bunker Hill Community College, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Philanthropy Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Stephen believes that change moves at the speed of trust and relationships. He lives in the South End with his husband and two children.