Charles E.M. Kolb
President
charles.kolb@ced.org
Prior to joining CED in 1997, Kolb served as General Counsel of United Way of America from l992. During nearly ten years of government service, he held several senior-level positions. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House (1990-1992) where he worked on several domestic policy issues involving economic, education, legal, and regulatory matters. From 1983 to 1990, he held three other government positions: Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget (1983-1986); Deputy General Counsel for Regulations and Legislation, U.S. Department of Education (1986-1988); and Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education (1988-1990).
Prior to government service, he practiced law at two Washington, D.C., law firms: Covington & Burling and Foreman & Dyess. He also was a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph H. Young in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kolb received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and did graduate work at Balliol College, Oxford University, from which he received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He is also the author of a book on policymaking in the first Bush White House and numerous law review and op-ed articles.
Michael J. Petro
Vice President and Director of Business and Government Policy and Chief of Staff
michael.petro@ced.org
Michael Petro serves as CED's Vice President and Director of Business and Government Policy and Chief of Staff. In this capacity, Mr. Petro is responsible for connecting CED's policy projects and activities to the business community, government officials, and members of the media.
In recent years, Mr. Petro has been successful in helping build new constituencies around such issues as campaign finance reform, trade and globalization, K-12 education reform, and early childhood education. Of particular note was CED's effort to engage and mobilize business leaders around campaign finance reform.
Prior to joining CED, Petro served as Vice President for the Center for National Policy. For over seven years he was responsible for overseeing the day to day activities of the public policy organization. He played an instrumental role in directing the organization's political and communications agenda.
Petro has had extensive interaction and dealings with government and business leaders of various Asian countries. He led a congressional staff delegation to Taiwan and Hong Kong and participated in a trip to South Korea led by former Speaker of the House Thomas Foley. In addition, he has assisted in projects dealing with U.S. policy toward Cambodia and Vietnam.
He has been active in a variety of political activities, including his work on the presidential campaigns of John Glenn and Walter Mondale, serving as National Finance Director for Bob Graham's 1986 Senate Campaign and working as Executive Director of the Democratic Business Council.
Petro studied at Brunel University in England and is a graduate of the State University of New York at Brockport.
Buff Mackenzie
Senior Fellow
buff.mackenzie@ced.org
Mackenzie works on international outreach and partnership development for CED. His efforts are also focused on expanding public-private alliances in Africa with a view of bringing the best of business thinking to developing country education challenges. He is the CED liaison with the Global Learning Portal Alliance (www.glp.net).
Prior to joining CED, Mackenzie was a senior advisor on education partnerships for the U.S. Agency for International Development following a stint as Director of the USAID's Global Education Office. A retired member of the career Senior Foreign Service at USAID, Mackenzie previously served as Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, covering 23 countries, including leading humanitarian programs in Sudan, Somalia and Burundi while based in Nairobi, Kenya, and as Mission Director in Madagascar. Mackenzie has worked on policy reform and capacity-building in the areas of agribusiness, trade, agriculture research, health, education, HIV/AIDS, environment, privatization, banking and capital markets, and telecom/internet access and privatization.
During his 34-year development career, Mackenzie also served in Panama, Burkina Faso and Washington, D.C. with USAID and in Kenya and El Salvador with the U.S. Peace Corps. Recognized by USAID through a number of individual and group awards, Mackenzie was the first recipient of the USAID Administrator's Award for Reengineering in 1997 for his development contributions in Madagascar.
Mackenzie has B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Public Administration and another in Planning from the University of Virginia. His outside interests include tennis, cycling, reading, guitar and travel.
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