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Douglas E. Lynch

Douglas E. Lynch is the Chief Academic Officer for CorpU, an education technology company, and is concurrently senior fellow at University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Lynch was formerly Vice Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.Lynch served as the Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Penn from 2004 to 2012. While at Penn, he delivered a “TED Talk” on innovation in education. He also launched the NEST and Milken Business Plan Competition, the largest education business plan competition in the world, according to the Pennsylvania Gazette.Lynch also served as a director for the Wharton School's Aresty Institute for Executive Education and as a senior fellow at the Fels Institute of Government. Prior to Penn, he served as an assistant dean at New York University and before joining NYU, he worked at the College Board and Arizona State University. At NYU he created Corporate Learning Services, an "advisory program for large organizations such as American Express and JetBlue Airways on developing corporate universities."On April 25, 2012, Lynch was placed on administrative leave at Penn pending an investigation of his academic credentials. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a spokesperson for the school said that Lynch "mistakenly believed" that his doctoral degree from Columbia was complete. Lynch resigned from his position the following day. As of early 2013, Columbia University's website lists Lynch as having a PhD, with a dissertation in economics and education entitled "Does Diversity Matter?: Evidence from the Relationship Between an Institution's Diversity and the Salaries of its Graduates".