Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg served as United States Secretary of Transportation from 2021 to 2025. During his tenure, he oversaw historic improvements in American infrastructure, transportation safety and technology, and airline passenger rights. Previously, Buttigieg served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. His historic 2020 campaign won the Iowa caucuses and finished second in the New Hampshire primary. A veteran of the US Navy Reserve, he deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University and studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the bestselling author of Shortest Way Home, Trust, and Next. Buttigieg lives with his family in northern Michigan.