Anthony Carnevale currently serves as research professor and director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Between 1996 and 2006, Carnevale served as vice president for public leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). While at ETS Carnevale was appointed by President George Bush to serve on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education.

Before joining at ETS, Carnevale was director of human resource and employment studies at the Committee for Economic Development (CED), the nation’s oldest business-sponsored policy research organization. While at CED, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to chair the National Commission on Employment Policy (NCEP).

Carnevale was the founder and president of the Institute for Workplace Learning (IWL) between 1983 and 1993. Prior to founding the IWL, Carnevale also served as director of political and government affairs for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest union in the AFL-CIO. Prior to joining AFSCME, he was a senior staff member in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Carnevale was appointed majority staff director on the Public Financing Sub-Committee of the House Committee on Government Operations, during consideration of the value added tax proposals and revenue sharing.

Carnevale received his B.A. from Colby College, and his Ph.D. in public finance economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.