Salzburg Global Seminar Session Participant Profiles
Tue 02 Oct - Sun 07 Oct, 2012

Michael Nettles Michael Nettles (Chairperson)

Country/Region: USA

Educational Testing Service

Senior Vice President, ETS Policy Evaluation & Research Center, Princeton, NJ, USA

Most Recently Attended: (2012)
Good Behaviors: The Crucial Connection between Health and Education

Biography:
Michael T. Nettles is senior vice president of ETS's Policy Evaluation & Research Center, where he oversees ETS's public policy research program. He is also responsible for advancing the application of ETS's research and information to address critical education challenges. He is ETS's Edmund W. Gordon Chair for Policy Evaluation & Research. His history with ETS dates back to 1984 when he joined as a research scientist and was later promoted to senior research scientist in the Division of Education Policy Research. In 1989 Michael Nettles left ETS to assume the position of vice president for Assessment of the University of Tennessee Systems. Before returning to ETS in 2003, he also served for 12 years as a tenured professor of education at the University of Michigan.
He has held several other professional positions and served as the first executive director of the Fredrick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund from 1996 to 1999, where he published the three-volume "African American Education Data Book" series and "Two Decades of Progress". He is a former trustee of the College Board on which he served on the executive committee, and a former member of the National Assessment governing board where he served as vice chairman. Michael Nettles has chaired last year's session and the planning meeting for Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide and is a Fellow of numerous previous sessions.

Media files from Michael Nettles

"Diversity by Design" (opening remarks"

Closing educational and social mobility gaps worldwide: re-setting the agenda (interviewed by John Lotherington)

concluding remarks

Introductory Speech