Ian Rowe,
Resident Fellow, Domestic Poverty Studies,
American Enterprise Institute
Ian Rowe is the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of International Baccalaureate high schools launching in the Bronx in 2022; a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focused on education, upward mobility, family structure and adoption; chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a premier adoption organization; the cofounder of Cadence Learning (the National Summer School Initiative); a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and 1776 Unites; and an advisor for FAIR For All.
Formerly he was CEO of Public Prep, a non-profit network of all-boys and all-girls public charter schools; deputy director of postsecondary success at the Gates Foundation; senior vice president of strategic partnerships and public affairs at MTV; director of strategy and performance measurement at the USA Freedom Corps office in the White House; and a director at Teach For America.
He has been published in the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Washington Examiner.
Mr. Rowe has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in computer science engineering from Cornell University, and is a product of the NYC public school system K-12.
He is the author of the upcoming book Agency, to be published by Templeton Press.