Tony Wagner Bio

Tony Wagner is the Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past nine years. Wagner has worked for more than thirty-five years in the field of school improvement. Prior to his current position at Harvard, Wagner was a high school teacher for twelve years; a school principal; a university professor in teacher education; co-founder and first executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility; project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York; and President and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. He has definitely come up the ranks.

Wagner earned a M.A. in Teaching and Ph. D. in Education at Harvard.

Wagner has had two books published in the last year:
The Global Achievement Gap
Change Leadership