David L. Finegold is the President of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a scholar and educational entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to education and training reform, designing high-performance organizations, and international comparisons of skill-creation systems and performance.
Before joining Chatham, Dr. Finegold was Chief Academic Officer at American Honors, an organization which seeks to improve the quality and affordability of undergraduate education by building honors colleges in partnership with leading community colleges across the United States. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President for Lifelong Learning and Strategic Growth at Rutgers University. With colleagues from the Tata Institute of Social Science, he was one of the four recipients of the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award to build higher education capacity in India.
Dr. Finegold, a prolific writer of both professional and popular publications, has authored or co-authored seven books and monographs, including Are Skills the Answer? (2001). He has provided policy advice on skills issues to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.S., Australian, Canadian, Singapore, Indian, South Korean, and British governments, and was an Atlantic Fellow and Policy Advisor to the Leitch Review, Her Majesty’s Treasury, London.
He holds a doctorate in Politics from University of Oxford.
