Ian Rowe

Ian Rowe is the founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of character-based International Baccalaureate high schools inaugurated in the Bronx, and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on education and upward mobility. In addition to serving ten years as CEO of Public Prep, he held leadership positions at Teach for America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the White House, and MTV, where he earned two Public Service Emmys. Following the publication of his book “Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power”, Rowe also leads AEI’s FREE Initiative, which shares insights into how family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship weave together a moral fabric that shapes children with leaders around the country. He has been widely published in the popular press, including in the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Examiner, and is often interviewed on talk radio programs. Rowe has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was the first black editor-in-chief of the Harbus; a B.S. in computer science engineering from Cornell University; and a diploma in electrical engineering from Brooklyn Technical High School.