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Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.

John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to Noodle, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed.

‍Katzman is the co-author of five books and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.

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Sanjeev Sanyal is currently a Member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’sEconomic Advisory Council (since 2022) with the rank of Secretary,Government of India. He was earlier the Principal Economic Adviser to theFinance Minister for five years till February 2022. He has also representedIndia on many international forums such as OECD and G7, and served as Co-Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group. He was one of the keyarchitects of the G20’s Global Action Plan that kept the world economyfunctioning during the pandemic years.Since joining the government in early 2017, he was involved in many keyreforms For his contributions to public service, Sanjeev Sanyal was given theKPS Menon Memorial Award for 2023. The award is named after India’s firstforeign secretary.Prior to joining the government, he spent over two decades in internationalfinancial markets, and served as Chief Economist for South & South-EastAsia and later as Global Strategist and a Managing Director at DeutscheBankAn alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, Mr. Sanyallater attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded theEisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems. In 2010 he wasnamed as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Hehas been a visiting professor/fellow of numerous institutions such as OxfordUniversity Royal Geographical Society (London), Institute of Policy Studies(Singapore , Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He also chairs the board ofadvisors of the Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (DelhiUniversity and was a member of the Board of Advisors of the World CitiesSummit Singapore.Mr Sanyal is the author of a number of best-selling books includingRevolutionaries Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in theAge of Ideas, The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean, Life Over TwoBeers Iconic Indians and the Indian Renaissance. He has also publishedaround two hundred and fifty articles and columns in leading national andinternational publications. His writings have received many awards includingthe Kalinga Book Award 2023, the Art Karat Award 2018, Skoch Award forEconomics 2023 and so on. His book Revolutionaries is currently beingconverted into an Amazon Prime series.

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Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.

For more than 17 years, Dr. Justin H. Lonon has provided proven executive and strategic leadership for Dallas College, guiding the institution to fulfill its mission of “transforming lives and communities through higher education.” Following a unanimous vote by the Dallas College Board of Trustees in 2021, Lonon began serving as the college’s eighth chancellor in March 2022.

Lonon previously served as executive vice chancellor, leveraging his institutional knowledge to provide intentional leadership to the finance, governmental relations, legal, board relations, social responsibility, facilities, human resources, innovation and technology, marketing and communications, safety and security, emergency management, institutional effectiveness, and strategic initiatives functional areas.

Lonon served as a driving force in the consolidation of the 55-year-old Dallas County Community College District — and its seven colleges — into one Dallas College. The historic move helps to meet the needs of Dallas County students, improving their access to in-demand degrees and credentials.

To help address the teacher shortage, Lonon provided oversight to the creation of Dallas College’s first four-year degree in Early Childhood Education — the first in the state of Texas at a community college. This has led to the launch of the state’s first Teacher Residency Program. The college launched a second bachelor’s degree in nursing in summer 2024.

Lonon’s experience as a collaborative leader in higher education transcends the executive suite. He previously served as interim president of Dallas College’s Brookhaven Campus, overseeing the 13,000-plus students the campus welcomes each semester.

Prior to joining Dallas College in 2005, Lonon worked in the private sector providing public affairs counsel to local and national companies and nonprofit organizations. Lonon began his career in Dallas at City Hall, serving as press secretary for the Mayor’s Office.

Lonon serves on several national and local boards, including the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU); COMBASE, a national consortium of leading community colleges; the Austin-based United Ways of Texas; the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas’ Advancement Committee; the North Texas Crime Commission; the Dallas Father of the Year Awards, and Rebuilding America’s Middle Class (RAMC). He co-chairs the University of Maryland – Global Campus (UMGC) Doctoral Program Advisory Board and served as past chair of the Task Force on Higher Education Government Relations for the American Association of Community Colleges.

The Arkansas native earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Missouri State University, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of North Texas and a doctorate in management from the University of Maryland – Global Campus.

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Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.

Ryan Craig is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners and was formerly an MD at University Ventures. Ryan’s commentary on where the puck is going in education and workforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter, Forbes, and Inside Higher Education. He is the author of the book Apprentice Nation: How the "Earn and Learn" Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America (2023). He is also author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (2018), which describes the critical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of bootcamps, income share programs, staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs and was named in the Wall Street Journal as one the Books of the Year for 2018. Ryan’s first book was College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (2015), which profiles the coming shift toward competency-based education and hiring. Ryan is a co-founder of Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships across the U.S. economy and is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Previously, Ryan led the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experience in higher education was at Columbia University. Ryan also founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Co.

Ryan received bachelor's degrees summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School.

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Jeb Bush is the 43rd governor of the state of Florida and served two terms from 1999 to 2007. Governor Bush maintains his passion for improving the quality of education for students across the country by serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of ExcelinEd.

Governor Bush was the third Republican elected as governor in Florida and the first in the state’s history to be reelected. During his two terms, Governor Bush championed major reform of government with the top priority of overhauling the state’s failing education system. Under his leadership, Florida established a bold accountability system in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice programs in the nation. Today, Florida remains a national leader in education and is one of the only states in the nation to significantly narrow the achievement gap.

Governor Bush earned his bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as a Presidential Professor of Practice at University of Pennsylvania, a visiting professor and fellow at Harvard University as well as an executive professor at Texas A&M University. He has also been awarded several honorary doctorates from collegiate institutions across the country.

Governor Bush has been recognized for his contributions to public policy by national organizations including the Manhattan Institute, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Jack Kemp Foundation. Governor Bush has authored or co-authored three books, Profiles in Character; Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution; and Reply All: A Governor’s Story 1999-2007.

Governor Bush is the son of former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. He lives in Miami with his wife Columba, and they have three children and five grandchildren.

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Dr. Chris Howard is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of ASU. Howard works closely with President Crow and the other executive vice presidents to coordinate enterprise-wide initiatives, technology, and advancement and oversee ASU Enterprise planning and strategy.

He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate in politics as a Rhodes Scholar from the University of Oxford. He also has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and in 2018, received the school's Alumni Achievement Award. In 2024, he received the inaugural Leadership Achievement Award from the U.S. Air Force Academy. Howard's service to his country began as a helicopter pilot, then as an intelligence officer, where he was assigned to the elite Joint Special Operations Command. He served in Afghanistan in the Air Force Reserve and was awarded the Bronze Star. Howard concluded his career as a Reserve Military Attaché to Liberia, Africa.

As a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, Howard co-edited a report entitled 'Re-Engineering American Security: Cultivating Talent for Competitiveness'. Howard unveiled the report's key findings during the 2023 Aspen Security Forum, sharing a panel with former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Previously, Howard served as the eighth president of Robert Morris University, a nationally ranked doctoral-granting university in suburban Pittsburgh.

Before serving at RMU, Howard was President of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

Howard also served as vice president for Leadership & Strategic Initiatives at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he worked in General Electric's Corporate Initiatives Group and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Corporate Associates Program. Howard served on the National Security Education Board, appointed by President Barack Obama.

He is a trustee on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and also serves on the Board of Directors of AvalonBay Communities. Howard is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Young Presidents Organization, the Trilateral Commission, and Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African-American fraternity in the United States.

Howard won the Campbell Trophy, the nation’s highest academic award for a senior college football player. He also is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and a former member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.

Howard is the founder and a trustee emeritus of the Impact Young Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports South African youth. He is also a board member of The Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall and the Barrow Neurological Institute Foundation.

His wife, Barbara Noble Howard, serves as an Arizona State University Fellow for nonprofit leadership. She also serves on several philanthropic boards and hails from South Africa. They have two adult sons, Cohen and Joshua.

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Jeanne Allen founded the Center for Education Reform (CER) over three decades ago to restore excellence to education, and built it into the nation’s leading advocate for innovation and opportunity in education. CER pioneered dozens of laws providing parents with choice and launched a nationwide movement that energized millions to engage in the fight.

In 2021, Allen partnered with long time board member and education philanthropist Janine Yass and her husband Jeff to direct their education investments, and launched the Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless education, which defines their focus. Together and in partnership with Forbes, they work to support and engage educators, innovators, parents and policymakers to create the mechanisms for success for every student.

Allen began her career on Capitol Hill in 1983 and served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Education. She was the founding director of the first online communications portal, TownHall, and launched CER in 1993. From 2013 – 2016, Allen worked with a number of Silicon Valley education companies to bring about new innovations in online education and in 2015, she advised on the creation of the Masters in Education Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Pennsylvania and was co-founder of the StartED Accelerator.

Jeanne has appeared extensively throughout the media and has contributed her analysis and voice to hundreds of outlets from NBC to FOX, and from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to Forbes Online, and a sought after speaker. Along with mentoring hundreds, she has served on numerous boards and posts in the education and tech worlds, and is a member of several lay orders dedicated to serving the poor.

A first-generation Italian-American with an oversized affinity for her heritage, Jeanne authors a weekly newsletter entitled Forza, hosts the in Piazza podcast, and is author of An Unfinished Journey: Education & the American Dream (2020) which chronicles her journey through education. She is also the author of Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014), Manifesto: A Movement at Risk (2016) and co-author with Angela Dale of The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995).

Allen, who holds a bachelor’s from Dickinson College and a master’s of science from the University of Pennsylvania, is mother to four amazing people & grandmother to two. She enjoys spoiling them, entertaining, politics and spending time on the water with her husband Dr. Kevin Strother, educator, boat Captain and classically-trained musician.

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Betsy DeVos is a leader, an innovator, a disruptor, and a champion for freedom. She is the nation’s leading advocate for education freedom for students of all ages, having served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2017-2021. For more than three decades, she has been tireless in her pursuit of public policy reforms that get government out of the way and allow all students the freedom, flexibility, resources and support they need to choose where, when and how they learn. Her advocacy has helped create new educational choices for K-12 students in more than 25 states and the District of Columbia and expanded post-high school education options for students and adult learners alike.

Betsy is also an accomplished business leader. She served as Chairman of The Windquest Group, a privately held investment and management firm based in Michigan. She is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Michigan Republican Party. Betsy is a graduate of Calvin College and is married to entrepreneur, philanthropist and community activist Dick DeVos. Together, they have four children and thirteen grandchildren.

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Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.

Arne Duncan is a prominent educator and public servant who served as the U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2016. Before his tenure in Washington, he was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, where he implemented significant reforms and oversaw the opening of over 100 new schools. Currently, Duncan is the Managing Director of Chicago CRED, an organization dedicated to reducing gun violence and providing opportunities for at-risk youth in Chicago. A Harvard graduate and former professional basketball player, he has devoted his career to improving educational outcomes and advocating for vulnerable communities.

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Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.

This conversation is from January 2024 between Michael Moe (Founder & CEO, GSV) and Chris Madden (Co-Founder, Imagine AI Live & CEO of Good Future Media) on an episode of the Imagine AI Live podcast.