December 13, 2023│Office of Communications
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is pleased to announce that Elisabeth C. Kann has been selected as the next Deputy Administrator. Her appointment takes effect on December 18, 2023.
Ms. Kann brings a wealth of leadership experience and industry expertise to her new role. Since joining TTB in 2010 as a Presidential Management Fellow, Ms. Kann has handled many of the Bureau’s most complex and challenging issues and served in a variety of executive roles. Immediately preceding her appointment as Deputy Administrator, she served as the Assistant Administrator (Policy & Planning) and Chief Risk Officer, overseeing and integrating the Bureau’s Offices of Strategic Planning and Analytics within an enterprise risk framework, and leading the Bureau’s efforts to implement the domestic and import provisions of the Craft Beverage Modernization Act. Prior to this most recent position, she served as Chief of Staff and Assistant Administrator (External Affairs), expanding the Bureau’s communications program and leading efforts to improve stakeholder engagement, including integrating customer experience principles to modernize TTB programs and systems. Ms. Kann also served an extensive assignment as Acting Assistant Administrator (Headquarters Operations) during the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading the Bureau’s efforts to expand industry’s capacity to provide alcohol for use in hand sanitizers to protect public health.
Before beginning her federal career, Ms. Kann was a litigation attorney in the New York office of Kaye Scholer LLP, where she specialized in complex commercial and securities fraud litigation. She is a graduate from Dartmouth College, earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and has a Master’s in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Administrator Mary Ryan stated, “I am extremely pleased to welcome Lis to her new role. Her thoughtful and practical approach to regulation, and commitment to transparency and engagement, make her the best possible choice to help lead the Bureau’s efforts to promote a level playing field and protect consumers in a highly competitive marketplace.”