John E. Chubb

John E. Chubb is chief development officer and senior executive vice president of EdisonLearning, which he helped found in 1992. EdisonLearning is an education reform company, working with disadvantaged communities to create innovative charter schools, to turn around underperforming public schools and to bring online educational solutions to schools and families. Prior to assuming his current role, Dr. Chubb served as EdisonLearning’s Chief Education Officer. Before joining Edison, Dr. Chubb was a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a professor at Stanford University. He currently is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Chubb is the author or editor of numerous books and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Education Next, The Public Interest, and The American Political Science Review, among other publications.  He has served as an adviser to the White House, numerous state governments, and public and private schools and school systems. Dr. Chubb holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. summa cum laude from Washington University, both in political science.