Janet F. Kavinoky

Janet F. Kavinoky is director of transportation infrastructure in the Congressional and Public Affairs Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity, she serves as the Chamber's senior lobbyist and policy expert on all transportation infrastructure issues. In addition, she is the executive director of the Americans for Transportation Mobility—a national business-labor-construction industry coalition that unifies transportation stakeholders to support increased federal investment in an interconnected, multimodal transportation system.

Kavinoky leads the development of the Chamber's Let's Rebuild America initiative. This initiative educates, engages, and activates Chamber members to reframe infrastructure issues and advance solutions to ensure that the American transportation infrastructure and logistics system allows seamless transportation of goods and people.

Previously, Kavinoky served as project director for business development and transportation finance at the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials. Before that, she spent four years at the U.S. Department of Transportation in the mid- to late 1990s, rising to the position of special assistant to the secretary. She also served as a consultant to the California Department of Transportation. Kavinoky received her bachelor's degree in political economy from the University of Wyoming, where she was a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She earned a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

She is president of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association's Washington-Baltimore chapter, an alumna of the National Outdoor Leadership School, and a member of the Congressional Women’s Golf Association.