Scott Chan has been the chief investment officer of CalSTRS since July 2024. Joining CalSTRS in August 2018 as deputy chief investment officer, he leads an investment staff of more than 200 and oversees a portfolio valued at $337.9 billion as of May 31, 2024​​​​.

Chan has extensive experience as a financial executive overseeing a wide range of investment strategies, at large-scale plans, across all assets and geographies. Prior to joining CalSTRS, Chan 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 the UC, he 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, co-chair and board member of the Institutional Investors Roundtable and serves on the Milken Institute’s Executive Counsel for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Asset Management. He’s also on the advisory boards of the Alternative Investment Management Association, 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 CFA charterholder.