Leadership

Chief Finanancial Officer,
Alex S. Keenan

Alex Keenan became the ICE Chief Financial Officer in March 2007. As the CFO, Mr. Keenan oversees accounting and finance, budget, facilities and engineering, and asset management.

Prior to joining ICE, Keenan served as budget director for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2002 until 2007. In this position, he was responsible for overseeing $14 billion in annual spending and developing the agency's first performance budget plan to tie resources to outcomes. He also helped to pioneer the use of annual agency business plans to better guide performance and goal-setting.

Before joining the FAA, Keenan served in several capacities in the Office of Management and Budget working on child welfare, veterans health, and drug enforcement issues. He began his career as a budget analyst for the U.S. Department of Justice, working on management issues with the Federal Prison System and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Since becoming CFO, Keenan has eliminated the remaining two material weaknesses ICE contributed to the Department’s consolidated audit and taken steps to prepare ICE for a stand-alone audit.

Keenan is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and he is a graduate of the Presidential Management Intern Program (1992) and the OMB's Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (2001).

A native of San Francisco, CA, Keenan is married and has three daughters.

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