Todd Greene is a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute. He previously served as vice president of the Work, Education, and Labor Division. During this time, he lead a team of apprenticeship, higher-education, K-12 education, labor markets, and workforce development experts who shape education and workforce systems that lead to lifelong success and a labor market that delivers economic security, dignity, and voice. Greene also served as the executive director of WorkRise, an innovative research-to-action network focused on jobs, workers, and mobility hosted by the Urban Institute. WorkRise funds research on promising practices, policies, and programs and undertakes foundational research on labor market trends to strengthen employers, inform policymaking and practices, and provide genuine economic mobility and security for workers.
Before joining Urban, Greene was executive director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium. There, Greene led a team focused on enhancing academic programs, forging interdisciplinary research, and catalyzing a broad economic development agenda.
For more than 10 years, Greene was a vice president in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he led research, policy, and outreach initiatives to promote inclusive economic growth. Greene founded and led the Federal Reserve System’s human capital/workforce development working group and launched the Federal Reserve Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity.
Greene has published numerous articles and coedited two books: Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century and Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. He is past board chair of the International Economic Development Council, chairs the national advisory board for the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, and serves on the board of the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and on the Social Finance Institute Advisory Council.
Greene, a certified economic developer, earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and master’s degrees from Washington University and Georgia State University. He has completed executive education programs at Stanford University and Universidad ESAN.
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