Alan Arkatov

Alan is Senior Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow, Executive Director of the ASU Learning Transformation Studios, and a Professor of Practice at the ASU College of Global Futures and Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Concurrent with his roles at ASU, Arkatov received appointments as a senior fellow at the USC Rossier School of Education and the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.

Previously, he was the Founding Director of USC's Center EDGE and the Katzman/Ernst Chair for Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation at USC's Rossier School of Education. Alan was President of Changing.edu, CEO of the Teaching Channel, a founding team member and EVP for 2U, and Founder and Chairman of OnlineLearning.net.

Alan has guided some of the preeminent communications companies in the U.S., and as a political media consultant, helped produce the ads for over a dozen successful Mayoral, Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, and Presidential campaigns. A former California State Board of Education member, Alan was Chair of the California Post-Secondary Education Commission and Los Angeles Information Technology Agency, a U.S. Secretary of Education appointee to the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission, and President of the L.A. Commission for Children, Youth, and Families.

A retired concert violinist/violist and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Alan resides in Los Angeles with his wife, their Labradoodle, and (minus) their two sons.