Paul Hodge

Paul Hodge is Chair of the Global Generations Policy Institute and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.

The public’s servant, action-oriented innovator, change-maker, pragmatic visionary, social entrepreneur, public interest advocate, law enforcement leader and educator – for 30 years, Paul Hodge has successfully confronted societal challenges by focusing his passion and creative talents to improving the quality of life for many of our fellow Americans.

Paul has gained national recognition for leading public service initiatives to save lives and to protect and improve the quality of life and care for America's baby boomers, minorities, youth, the elderly and our vulnerable fellow citizens in need. To ensure abundant, secure and dignified futures for America’s women, Paul created the Women's Abundance Leadership Initiative and recently published the nationally recognized study/book “Baby Boomer Women: Secure Futures or Not?”

In recognition of his visionary work, Paul was invited as an acknowledged Social Leader to the December, 2006 Inauguration of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon; serves with 2006 Nobel Peace Price Winner Muhammad Yunus and other world leaders on the board of directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; and was honored as the lead national baby boomer expert in the September, 2006 White House Conference on Aging’s historic “Final Report to the President and Congress, The Booming Dynamics of Aging: From Awareness to Action”.

Founding Chair of the Global Generations Policy Institute, Distinguished Visiting Fellow Emeritus at Oxford University and Founding Director of Harvard University’s National Baby Boomer Readiness Initiative, Generations Policy Program and Generations Policy Journal, Paul is a recognized authority and expert adviser to leaders in private industry, government and non-profits on the policy challenges and solutions dealing with our country’s aging citizens and baby boomers.

While his publications have received national recognition and he has created and led ground breaking initiatives, Paul has participated with world leader colleagues and moderated sessions at the World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute. He has advised the White House and the U.S. Congress and appeared on and been extensively quoted and published in the national and world media.

In addition to his efforts to help people in need throughout the world, Paul has spear headed initiatives to safeguard our nation's environment and has created and led successful programs to raise millions in support of diverse educational, charitable, public service and nonprofit, nonpartisan causes and institutions.

Paul has received awards and commendations, including being awarded Harvard University's prestigious 2000 Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship for academic excellence and public service, the National Institute of Justice's John B. Pickett Fellowship for integrity, professionalism and leadership in improving the nation's criminal justice system and the National Association of Attorneys General Award for leading ground breaking efforts to protect and serve our nation's vulnerable elder citizens.

Paul has earned an MPA (2000) with honors from Harvard University, a JD from Boston University's School of Law, an MBA from Columbia University Business School and an AB from Brown University.

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