Ted Mitchell

Ted Mitchell is the President of the American Council on Education. Before coming to ACE in 2017, Ted served as the Under Secretary of the United States Department of Education. Prior to his federal service, Mitchell was the CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, a national investor in education innovation. He has also served as President of Occidental College, President of the California State Board of Education, and in a variety of leadership roles at UCLA, including Vice Chancellor. Mitchell was deputy to the President and to the Provost at Stanford University and began his career as a professor at Dartmouth College where he also served as Chair of the Department of Education.