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Christopher P. Lu
Cabinet Secretary
In office January 20, 2009 – January 25, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Personal details
Born	June 12, 1966 (age 47) New Jersey
Nationality	United States
Spouse(s)	Kathryn Thomson
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard Law School
Occupation	Attorney, General Counsel

Christopher P. Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢沛宁; traditional Chinese: 盧沛寧; pinyin: Lú Pèiníng; born June 12, 1966) served as Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary for United States PresidentBarack Obama from 2009 to 2013.He also served as the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Obama's.

In 2005, Lu first began working for Barack Obama in his U.S. Senate office, where Lu served as legislative director and acting chief of staff. Following Obama's successful 2008 campaign for presidency, Lu was appointed executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. When Obama appointed Lu as Cabinet Secretary, The New York Times described him as "one of the highest-rankingAsian Americans in the Obama administration".