AEC Honorary Fellows: Jon Baron

Jon Baron Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, Council for Excellence in Government http://www.excelgov.org/evidence Email: jbaron@EXCELGOV.org Office: 202-530-3279

Jon Baron founded the nonprofit, nonpartisan Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy in fall 2001, and currently serves as its Executive Director.  The Coalition is sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government.  Since its founding, the Coalition has built a strong track record of success in working with top Executive Branch and Congressional policymakers to advance evidence-based reforms in major U.S. social programs.  A recent independent evaluation of the Coalition’s work, conducted for the William T. Grant Foundation, found that the Coalition has been “instrumental in transforming a theoretical advocacy of evidence-based policy among certain agencies [Departments of Education and Justice, and OMB] into an operational reality.”  Based on this work, Mr. Baron was nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate in 2004, to serve on the National Board for Education Sciences, which helps set the research priorities and agenda for the U.S. Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences.  Prior to establishing the Coalition, Mr. Baron served as the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade (2000-2001); Program Manager for the Defense Department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program (1995-2000); and Counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on Small Business (1989-1994).  Mr. Baron holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University, and a bachelor of arts degree from Rice University.

 

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