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Joel Kurtzman
Senior Advisor
Knowledge Universe Education |
Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and a Senior Advisor to Knowledge Universe Education, was previously a global lead partner for thought leadership and innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers, developing marketable ideas in strategy, technology, the capital markets and business policy. At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kurtzman was responsible for the firm's Menlo Park and London, U.K. research centers.
Kurtzman began his career as an international economist at the United Nations, where he was Deputy Director of the United Nation's Project on the Future and Secretary of the Committee on Development Planning. While at the U.N., he participated in negotiations between India and Union Carbide Corp. over the Bhopal disaster. For these efforts, he was awarded India's Indira Gandhi Prize.
The author of 20 books and hundreds of articles, Kurtzman is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Business Review; former member of the editorial board of Harvard Business School Publishing; founding editor of Strategy + Business; and former business editor and columnist at The New York Times, as well as a former columnist for Fortune. He has spoken at forums around the world, including Davos and the Milken Institute Global Conference, and has organized and moderated nine Microsoft CEO Summits.
Kurtzman earned a master's degree at the University of Houston in Studies of the Future (economic forecasting) and was the recipient of a Moody Foundation Fellowship. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a recipient of the University of California's Eisner Memorial Prize for creativity and scholarship.
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