Paul is president and CEO of Rodel, an education nonprofit committed to improving public education and the economy in Delaware and the nation. He is a founding member of the Vision Coalition, one of the nation’s longest standing public-private partnerships working to transform Delaware’s pre-K to career systems. He chairs strategic planning for the state’s Workforce Development Board; he was recently appointed by President Biden to the board of the Barry Goldwater Foundation supporting the next generation of STEM leaders; and serves on the executive committee of Grantmakers for Education, a national philanthropic support organization. Paul has led international benchmarking trips to a range of countries from Singapore and Shanghai to Finland, Switzerland, and Canada and currently partnered with the OECD on a five-country study of career pathways. He is a frequent speaker on the national stage, is a Pahara Fellow, and a recipient of numerous national awards including New Schools Venture Fund’s “Change Agent of the Year,” and others from the Policy Innovation in Education Network. Prior to his current role, he served as a senior manager at New American Schools, consulted with Brookings Institution, RAND, and The World Bank. Paul has taught K-12 and co-founded an Outward Bound-based school-within-a-school in New York City which informed the creation of Expeditionary Learning, a national model. He assisted the secretary of education for two governors in Massachusetts during the wholesale redesign of the state’s policies on standards, choice, and finance and he holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Delaware, and master’s and doctoral degrees in education policy from Harvard University, where he also served as an adjunct. He and his wife, Dana, live in Wilmington and have three adult children that had great experiences attending Delaware’s public schools.