Michael Kahane

Bureau Chief, Southern Region

Michael Kahane is responsible for AHF’s daily business operations and development in the Southern United States and the Caribbean. He joined AHF in 2007 after a successful legal career.

Prior to joining AHF, Kahane was the executive vice president and general counsel for American Media, Inc., the third largest publishing company in North America. Before that he was the executive vice president and general counsel for Globe Communications Corp. He was also a partner at Deutsch, Levy and Engel, Chartered, a Chicago law firm specializing in First Amendment practice.

Kahane received his LL.M degree in intellectual property law from the John Marshall Law Center, his J.D. degree from Northwestern University and his undergraduate degree from Purdue University.

He is particularly proud of his bureau’s work in Haiti, where a new clinic provides medical care in an area largely populated by people displaced by the 2010 earthquake.