Scott Chan has served as chief investment officer of CalSTRS since July 2024. He joined CalSTRS in August 2018 as deputy chief investment officer and now leads an investment staff of more than 200, overseeing a portfolio valued at $349.5 billion as of March 31, 2025.

Chan has extensive experience as a financial executive, overseeing a wide range of investment strategies across large-scale plans, assets, and geographies. Prior to joining CalSTRS, he was senior managing director of the University of California Regents (UC), where he oversaw the $55 billion global equities portfolio across the university’s pension fund, endowment, and working capital pools. While at UC, he also sat on the investment committees of the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories’ defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans. Chan also served as chief investment officer for the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System and was a partner and portfolio manager for several hedge fund partnerships, where he gained direct investing expertise.

Chan is a board member of the Toigo Foundation and is co-chair and board member of the Institutional Investors Roundtable. He also serves on the Milken Institute’s Executive Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asset Management. Additionally, he sits on the advisory boards of the Alternative Investment Management Association, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, The Investment Diversity Exchange, the Alternative Investors Forum, Institutional Investor’s Public Funds Roundtable, and the Kroner Center for Financial Research.

Chan has a master’s in business administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.