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Dan Katzir, Managing Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Dan Katzir is a leading national expert on education philanthropy, specifically systemically improving urban public education to raise student achievement. Katzir is managing director of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, a national venture philanthropy dedicated to dramatically improving K-12 urban public education through better governance, management, labor relations and competition. Katzir has led the foundation since its inception, and under his leadership, the foundation has awarded more than $300 million in grants. Katzir brings to the foundation two decades of experience in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations, including school districts, schools, national education non-profits and businesses. Hired as the first Broad Foundation staff member in 1999, Katzir today oversees all aspects of the foundation's investments. Early on in his career, Katzir worked as a consultant to Bain and Company, where he developed and implemented business strategies for Fortune 500 companies. In the early 90's, Katzir served as chief operating officer of Teach for America, creating the organization's first financial planning and control system and training its national leaders in strategic planning, budgeting and personnel management. Seeing the benefit of applying best practices in management and operations from across sectors to the education industry, Katzir went on to serve as the first executive director of the UCLA School Management Program, a joint venture of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and The Anderson Business School that provides executive management training to public school educators. In four years, Katzir grew the program from a start-up to a $5 million, 60-person organization with offices across the country that provided customized executive management programs for boards of education, senior school district management, principals and teachers in numerous large school districts. Katzir also served as the regional director of Sylvan Learning Systems out in Los Angeles. Katzir has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.