Carmen Chu

Carmen Chu is the City Administrator for the City and County of San Francisco, overseeing 27 departments and programs, a 2,700 person workforce, and an annual budget of nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. She has over 17 years of governmental management and finance experience and is the first Asian American woman to serve as City Administrator.

Prior to becoming City Administrator, Ms. Chu was the elected Assessor from 2013 to 2021, during which she served as President of the Bay Area Assessors' Association and Vice-President of the California Assessors' Association. She also served as an elected representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2007 to 2013, and Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Public Policy and Finance.

In 2017, Ms. Chu launched the Bay Area's first Family Wealth Forum, an initiative to bridge the resource gap for low-income and monolingual immigrant communities in accessing free, credible financial and estate planning services. Over 3,000 residents and their families have since received one-on-one counseling or have been helped through this program.