Board of Trustees

Todd

Todd Greene

Title

  • Vice President of Work, Education, and Labor Division (WELD) at the Urban Institute and Executive Director of WorkRise

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Harvard University
  • Master’s Degrees, Washington University and Georgia State University
  • Executive Education, Stanford University
  • Executive Education, Universidad ESAN

About Todd Greene

Todd Greene is a vice president of the Work, Education, and Labor Division (WELD) at the Urban Institute where he leads a team of K–12, higher education, workforce development, apprenticeship, and labor market experts who shape education and training. He helps support a labor market that delivers economic security, dignity, and voice. He also serves as the executive director of WorkRise, a 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 the Urban Institute, Greene was executive director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium. Reporting directly to the four member presidents (Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College), 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.

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, serves on the boards of the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, and is a member of the Social Finance Institute Advisory Council.

A certified economic developer (CEcD), Greene has published many 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.”