Jon Fullerton

Member of the Faculty of Education

Profile

Jon Fullerton is the executive director of the Project for Policy Innovation in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has extensive experience working with policy makers and executives in designing and implementing organizational change and improvements. Before coming to Harvard, Dr. Fullerton served as the Board of Education’s Director of Budget and Financial Policy for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In this capacity, he provided independent evaluations of District reforms and helped to ensure that the District’s budget was aligned with Board priorities. From 2002 to 2005 he was Vice-President of Strategy, Evaluation, Research, and Policy at the Urban Education Partnership in Los Angeles, where he worked with policy makers to ensure that they focused on high impact educational strategies. Prior to this, Fullerton worked for five years at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant.

Degrees

• Ph.D., Harvard University