David Wright

David Wright serves as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Indiana Wesleyan University. Before his current position he served as Dean of the School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University. He has held positions at Indiana Wesleyan University as Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies, Chair of the Department of Graduate Studies in Ministry, Associate Dean, and Vice President for Adult and Graduate Studies. Dr. Wright holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Ministries from Indiana Wesleyan University, the Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from George Fox University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation from the University of Kentucky. He has published two books with Zondervan Publishing House, Finding Freedom From Fear: A Contemporary Study from the Psalms, and Wisdom as a Lifestyle: Building Biblical Life-codes, as well as professional and academic articles. He has been an ordained minister of The Wesleyan Church since 1980. Dr. Wright has a strong interest in international higher education having held positions in Haiti and England in addition to his work in the United States. His areas of professional focus include higher education policy, non-traditional and online program design and administration, and social foundations of higher education.

Scott Jaschik

Scott Jaschik is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, is quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishes articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, the Folio Editorial Excellence Awards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as a mentor in the community college fellowship program of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a member of the board of the Education Writers Association. From 1999 to 2003, Scott was editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scott grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University in 1985. He lives in Washington.

Jay F. Hein

Jay F. Hein is president of Sagamore Institute, an Indianapolis-based think tank he helped found in 2004. He was Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from August 2006 to August 2008. Hein serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for the Study of Religion and directs the Foundation for American Renewal, founded by U.S. Senator Dan Coats.  Hein was appointed by Governor Mitch Daniels in 2010 to serve as a member of the Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism. Earlier in his career, Hein was a welfare reform policy advisor to Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin from 1994 to 1997 and director of civil society programs at the Hudson Institute from 1997 to 2004. Hein received a Bachelors of Arts degree from Eureka College and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Jerry Pattengale

Jerry Pattengale's mantra is "The dream needs to be stronger than the struggle" – highlighted in his recent books with McGraw-Hill. He continues to speak at major venues, on broadcasts, and for a wide array of organizations. His Life Wedge™ concept and applications are helping thousands to focus and excel, and his consulting resources have generated considerable gains for organizations. Jerry founded Purpose-Guided Education™, co-produced a top-ten web site (Odyssey in Egypt) with Dr. Scott Carroll, co-founded and directed the Van Kampens' personal foundation, and in the fall of 2010 rejoined Dr. Carroll to launch a major international research program, The Green Scholars Initiative. In 2006, PBS/WIPB (Ball State University affiliate) included his journey in its special film, Leading the Way out of Poverty. In 2007 and 2008 he participated in Roundtable meetings at the White House on compassion efforts through the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Conversations series, the Director of The Green Scholars Initiative, a writing partner at GiANT Impact and an Assistant Provost at Indiana Wesleyan University. Jerry was recently named a Senior Fellow for both the Sagamore Institute and The Institute for Studies of Religions (Baylor), and an Associate Publisher for Christian Scholar’s Review.  

Lawrence Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), headquartered in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, a position he has held since September 1, 2008. Reed was born and raised in Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Grove City College. Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. An advocate for free market solutions to national and global issues, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries, as well as dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, and USA Today, among numerous others.

Philip Booth is editorial and program director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and professor of insurance and risk management at Cass Business School. Previously, Booth worked for the Bank of England as an advisor on financial stability issues. He has written widely, including a number of books on investment, finance, social insurance and pensions as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics. He is editor of Economic Affairs and associate editor of the Annals of Actuarial Science and the British Actuarial Journal.

Tom Lehman is Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana Wesleyan University. Dr. Lehman has served Indiana Wesleyan in a variety of capacities, including administrator and adjunct professor, since 1994. Dr. Lehman's core areas of teaching, research, and publication include: principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics, public policy and administration, public finance and budgeting, urban economics and government, urban housing markets, urban economic growth, inequality, Austrian economics, and statistics and social science research methods. Beyond his academic interests and teaching pursuits, Dr. Lehman has six years of experience in the insurance, banking, and financial services industries.

Ryan Streeter joins Sagamore as Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Director of Fiscal Studies. Streeter also serves as Editor of ConservativeHome, a political web site focused on the future of conservatism in America. Previously a senior fellow at Legatum Institute, Streeter has written on a range of topics such as the nature of prosperity globally and locally, entrepreneurship, and the private sector’s role in solving public problems.  He was co-director of The Legatum Prosperity Index, a global assessment of economic growth and well-being and has conducted surveys of entrepreneurs in emerging economies.  Prior to joining Legatum, Streeter was vice president of Civic Enterprises, a public policy development firm in Washington, D.C., where he provided a wide range of research, analysis, and public communication services to a diverse group of clients, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Heritage Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute. Streeter also served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for domestic policy, in which capacity he managed the development of policy on a range of issues such as poverty, civil society, global health, housing, human services, and health care.  He was also a research fellow at the Hudson Institute and top aide to former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith.  He holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Emory University.

Eve Poole earned her first degree from the University of Durham, studying theology. She then went on to earn her MBA from Edinburgh University, receiving the Associate of MBA’s Student of the Year Award in the process. Poole also earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 2010 and has written two books, including The Church on Capitalism, an essay on the views on capitalism as held by the bishops, academics and business people of the Church of England. Poole’s first professional position was with the Church Commissioners before she had earned her MBA. Later, she worked at Deloitte Consulting, using her skills in change management, particularly in the financial services industry. Since joining Ashridge Business School in 2002, Poole has become an Ashridge Associate and led a myriad of courses across the school’s portfolio, including open and tailored programs and in the public, private and voluntary sectors.  Her focus is on leadership, learning, emotional intelligence and ethics. Poole designed the the Ashridge Leadership Experience and continues her research into accelerated learning.