Anthony Jackson is recently retired from leading the Center for Global Education at Asia Society, which strives to enable all students to graduate from high school prepared for college, work in the global economy, and 21st century global citizenship. The Center is a platform for advancing education and global competence for all youth through empowering professional development of teachers and school heads, systemic change and public engagement. While heading the Center, Jackson founded the International Studies Schools Network, a global network of schools dedicated to developing students’ global competence, which now operates as a program of Community Catalyst Partners, LLC. He also founded the Global Cities Education Network, which now at Digital Promise continues the work started at the Center to engage leaders from high performing school systems worldwide in discussion and collaborative problem solving.

Trained in both developmental psychology and education, Jackson is one of the nation’s leading experts on secondary school education reform and adolescent development. Jackson directed the Carnegie Corporation’s Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents which produced the groundbreaking report Turning Points: Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century, and co-authored the seminal follow-up blueprint Turning Points 2000, considered one of the most influential books on middle school reform. He co-authored, with CRE member Veronica Boix-Mansilla, the book Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World, a second edition of which will be published in the fall of 2022. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan.