Ben Wildavsky is a senior scholar in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. A leading education analyst and popular speaker, he is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning book The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (Princeton University Press, 2010). He is also the co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation (Harvard Education Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and many other publications.