Charles N. Kahn III

Charles N. ("Chip") Kahn III (born 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), whose member companies own nearly 20 percent of all American hospital beds. Kahn and the FAH represent their members on health policy issues like health care reform and hospital care quality improvement.

Kahn was born and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Charles N. Kahn II, is a retired engineer and his mother, Felicia Kahn, is active in local and state politics. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social and behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters of Public Health degree from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

After graduating Kahn completed an administrative residency with the Teaching Hospital Department of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He then served the Office of Financial Management Education at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. Afterwards he served as a senior health policy advisor to former Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) and as legislative assistant for health to then-Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN).

Kahn's political campaign experience began as a high school student when he first met and worked for Newt Gingrich, then a Tulane University graduate student, and the Louisiana campaign director for the presidential campaign of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-NY). In 1969, Kahn served in what became the successful campaign for Maurice Edwin ("Moon") Landrieu, elected in 1970 as Mayor of New Orleans, and worked in Mayor Landrieu's Administration in 1975. In 1974 and 1976, Kahn managed Gingrich's first two campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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