Greg Richmond

Greg Richmond is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), an organization that believes quality authorizing is essential to ensuring families have access to great charter schools. Under Richmond’s leadership, NACSA has worked with numerous state and city governments, school systems, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and independent boards to improve charter school authorizing practices and policies that lead to great public schools. In 2017, he was chosen as an inductee to the National Charter School Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals for their innovation, long-term commitment, and pioneering efforts in the charter school sector. From 1994 through 2005, Richmond worked for the Chicago Public Schools where he oversaw all charter schools in the city. Later, he served as the chairman of the Illinois State Charter School Commissiona. He is an active alumnus of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship, and was a member of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind and the Advisory Board of Tulane University’s Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives. Richmond has consulted with the governments of the United Kingdom, Chile, and Abu Dhabi on the development of charter-like schools in those countries. He is frequently cited in local and national press as an authority on quality charter school authorizing.