Ira Jackson
Dean, Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
Ira A. Jackson is the Henry Y. Hwang Dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he is also a professor of management. Throughout his career, Jackson has brought entrepreneurship and excellence to business, government, higher education, and the nonprofit sector, and has focused his personal and professional life at the intersection of business, government and civil society, where he has been a bridge builder. Jackson received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is co-author of Profits with Principles: Seven Strategies for Delivering Value with Values (Doubleday, 2004). He has served as chief of staff to Boston’s Mayor Kevin White; as Senior Associate Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; as Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and, for twelve years, as Executive Vice President of Bank Boston.