Ryan Craig

Ryan Craig is a managing director atAchieve Partners. Ryan's commentary onwhere the puck is going in education and theworkforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter , Forbes , and Inside Higher Education .He is the author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College , which describes the crit-ical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of boot camps, income share pro-grams, and staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs, and...See more

Ryan Craig is a managing director atAchieve Partners. Ryan's commentary onwhere the puck is going in education and theworkforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter , Forbes , and Inside Higher Education .He is the author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College , which describes the crit-ical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of boot camps, income share pro-grams, and staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs, and was named in the Wall Street Journal as onethe Books of the Year for 2018. Ryan's first bookwas College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education , which profiles the comingshift toward competency-based education andhiring. Ryan is a cofounder of Apprenticeshipsfor America, a national nonprofit dedicated toscaling apprenticeships across the US economy.Previously, Ryan led the education and trainingsector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experiencein higher education was at Columbia University.He began his career at McKinsey & Co. Ryanreceived a bachelor's degree summa cum laudeand Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, andhis law degree from the Yale Law School. See less