Dr. Paul Herdman

Dr. Herdman is president and CEO of Rodel, a nonprofit committed to improving public education and the economy in Delaware and the nation. He is a founding member of the Vision Coalition, a public-private partnership working to transform Delaware’s pre-K to career systems. Herdman chairs strategic planning for the state’s Workforce Development Board and serves on the executive committee of Grantmakers for Education, a national philanthropic support organization. Herdman is currently partnered with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on a five-country study of career pathways. He has worked as a K-12 educator and co-founded an Outward Bound-based school-within-a-school in New York City, which informed the creation of a national model. He assisted the secretary of education for two governors in Massachusetts during the redesign of the state’s policies on standards, choice, and finance. Herdman holds master’s and doctoral degrees in education policy from Harvard University, where he also served as an adjunct, and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Delaware.