Adam Meyerson

Adam Meyerson joined The Philanthropy Roundtable as president in October 2001.  From 1993 to 2001, Adam was vice president for educational affairs at The Heritage Foundation. He coordinated the think tank's civil society projects, its publications on the Founding Fathers, and its "No Excuses" work on high-performing high-poverty schools. Meyerson was editor-in-chief of Heritage's magazine, Policy Review, from 1983 to 1998.

From 1979 to 1983 Adam was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and editor of its "Manager's Journal" and "Asia" columns and its book reviews. He is co-editor of The Wall Street Journal on Management, a book published by Dow Jones-Irwin in 1985. From 1974 to 1977, he was managing editor of The American Spectator magazine, then in Bloomington, Indiana.

Adam graduated summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University in 1974. From 1977 to 1979, he attended Harvard Business School and completed all requirements but the dissertation for a doctorate in international business.

Adam and his wife Nina live with their three sons in Washington, D.C.