Kevin Ryan (born 1967), was the president and CEO of Covenant House International, one of the largest charities in North and Central America serving homeless, trafficked and sexually exploited youth.

[5] Covenant House reports that it reaches more than 50,000 children and young people annually in United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

[14] Ryan left Covenant House for a period of time to serve as New Jersey's first Child Advocate, first commissioner of Children and Families and, with the United Nations, as the first chief of staff to the Secretary General's first special envoy for malaria.

[15] In January 2009, he returned to Covenant House to take over as its 4th international president since the organization's founding in 1972, and the first who is not a member of a Roman Catholic religious order.

From 2003 to 2006, Ryan served as New Jersey's first Child Advocate where he exposed a series of high-profile failings in the State juvenile justice system, including the illegal detention of hundreds of children awaiting mental health care.