Speaker biographies
Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI. He is also a Commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, and an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Antos’s research focuses on the economics of health policy, including Medicare reform, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. He is the editor, with Alice Rivlin, of Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (Brookings Institution Press, 2007). Before joining AEI, Antos was assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the technology and operations management and the general management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests focus on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Mr. Christensen is a board member at Tata Consulting Services, Franklin Covey, W.R. Hambrecht, and Vanu, and serves on Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC). In 2000, Mr. Christensen founded the consulting firm Innosight. He is also the founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm, and Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank applying disruptive innovation theories to the social sector. Prior to joining Harvard in 1992, Mr. Christensen was chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded. Mr. Christensen’s books include his seminal work, The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator’s Prescription (McGraw-Hill, 2009), Disrupting Class (McGraw-Hill, 2008), Seeing What’s Next (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), and The Innovator’s Solution (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).
Chester E. Finn Jr. is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Thomas B. Fordham Institute, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and senior editor of Education Next. Previously, Mr. Finn served as assistant secretary for research and improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and founding partner and senior scholar with the Edison Project. The author of fourteen books and over 350 articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Public Interest, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and many other major publications, journals, and newspapers.
Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at AEI and executive editor of Education Next. His many books include The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship (Harvard Education Press, 2008), No Remedy Left Behind (AEI Press, 2007), No Child Left Behind: A Primer (Peter Lang, 2006), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution Press, 1998). His work has appeared in both popular and scholarly outlets, including Harvard Educational Review, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Education Week, Phi Delta Kappan, the Washington Post, and National Review. Mr. Hess serves on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, as a research associate with the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance, and as a member of the advisory board for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. He is a former high school social studies teacher and has taught at Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Michael B. Horn is the cofounder and executive director of education of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank. Previously, Mr. Horn worked at America Online during its AOL.com relaunch, and also served as David Gergen’s research assistant. He is the coauthor of a book on disruptive innovation in education, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill, 2008) with Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson. Mr. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report.
Jason Hwang, M.D., is cofounder and executive director of health care at Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Watertown, Massachusetts. Dr. Hwang is an internal medicine physician and has received multiple recognitions for his clinical work. Previously, he was a Harvard Business School fellow at Innosight. He has also worked with the Health Horizons Program at the Institute for the Future, a forecasting think tank in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Hwang taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, until 2004 and has also served as a clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California. He is coauthor of a book on disruptive innovation in healthcare, The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare (McGraw-Hill, 2009), with Clayton Christensen and Jerome Grossman.
Mark B. McClellan, M.D., is a senior fellow and director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform and Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair in Health Policy at the Brookings Institution. A doctor and economist by training, Dr. McClellan’s focus is developing and implementing ideas to drive improvements in high-quality, innovative, and affordable health care. Dr. McClellan is also an associate professor of economics and of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, Dr. McClellan was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2002 to 2004, and an administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2004 to 2006. From 2001 to 2002, Dr. McClellan served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as senior director for health care for the White House. Dr. McClellan has also served as a national fellow at the Hoover Institution; the director of the program on health outcomes research at Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research; an associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics; and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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