Stephen Cheung,
President and CEO,
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Stephen Cheung leads the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., a non-profit organization that champions equitable economic growth across the Los Angeles region, as President and CEO. He brings together the capabilities of its mission-delivery department areas in business assistance, industry cluster development, workforce development, strategic relations, communications, marketing and public policy—as well as its research unit The Institute for Applied Economics and international unit World Trade Center Los Angeles—into a single team that delivers the corporation’s important public-benefit mission to reinvent the county economy to collaboratively advance growth and prosperity.
Stephen assumed his current roles in 2023 and continues concurrently since 2014 as President of World Trade Center Los Angeles. Formerly he was Secretary General and Managing Director of International Trade and Foreign Affairs for Los Angeles Mayors Eric Garcetti and Antonio Villaraigosa, responsible for managing policies and programs related to international affairs, global trade and clean technology and those involving the Port of Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports. Concurrently, Stephen was Director of International Trade for the Port of L.A. He is a board of advisors member for UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Extension, Coro Southern California and Sister Cities of Los Angeles, and director of the Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board