Biography

In addition to directing admissions and executive education at GSE, Dr. Lynch is also an academic director at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education and is a senior consultant at the Fels Institute of Government. At Penn, he has launched several new endeavors, including the first education business plan competition, the first joint doctoral program in work-based learning (with the Wharton School) and Penn’s executive master’s degree program for Teach for America corps members in Philadelphia. He teaches in the schools of education, Wharton, and Social Policy and Practice and has taught courses in the economics of education, higher education, adult and work-based learning, and social entrepreneurship, and he has grown revenue for executive education over 400 percent in five years, introducing almost one new degree program a year, all of which have been successful.