Doug Lynch (academic)

Doug Lynch
Born	May 7, 1964 (1964-05-07) (age 47) United States
Occupation	Professor

Doug Lynch, Ph.D., is the Vice Dean and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and also serves as a director for the Wharton School's Aresty Institute for Executive Education and is a senior fellow at the Fels Institute of Government.^[1] In collaboration with Gregory Milken of the Milken Family Foundation, Lynch developed the Penn GSE-Milken Education Business Plan Competition, a competition designed to stimulate innovation in education and to connect entrepreneurs to venture capitalists and funders.^[1][2] He also created a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania and Teach for America to support the corps members serving in Philadelphia. At Arizona State University, he helped to start Genesis Academy, one of the first charter schools in the country.^[1] At New York University, he was an early adopter of e-learning and has testified before Congress and the UN on the subject in the mid-90’s.^{[citation needed]}

At Penn he created the first doctoral program for leaders in the space,^{[clarification needed]} the Penn CLO Program, and at NYU he created “Corporate Learning Services,” an "advisory program for large organizations such as American Express and JetBlue Airways on developing corporate universities."^[3]

Lynch received a B.A. in Economics at Arizona State University (1987) and an M.B.A. in International Finance at New York University (1994). At Columbia University, he earned a M.Phil. (2005) and a Ph.D. in Economics and Education (2007).^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Penn GSE". Penn GSE. http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/lynch. Retrieved 2011-01-24. 
2. ^ "Wharton School of Business". Wharton School of Business. http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/evolvelearning/speakers.cfm. Retrieved 2011-01-24. 
3. ^ "The Long View: Doug Lynch". Training and Development Magazine. 2009-04. http://www.gse.upenn.edu/~dougl/76090484.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-24. 

External links

• Penn GSE
• A Silicon Valley for Education
• NEST

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Name	Lynch, Doug
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Short description	Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Date of birth	May 7, 1964
Place of birth	United States
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