Professional Background

Bruno V. Manno is Senior Advisor for K-12 Education with the Walton Family Foundation where he has been since 2009. His previous positions include Senior Program Associate for Education with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Senior Fellow in the Education Policy Studies Program at the Hudson Institute. While at Hudson Institute, he served as Executive Director of the Congressionally created National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education and also as Executive Director of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. 

Beginning in 1986, Manno served in the U.S. Department of Education as Director of Planning for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. He then held several senior policy and management positions in that office, including chief of staff. He eventually became Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning where he served as a principal advisor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander and Deputy Secretary of Education David Kearns. He led the team that created AMERICA 2000, President Bush's strategy to achieve the nation's six education goals. 

He is the co-author and editor of several books and has written dozens of articles for a variety of publications. He is a Pahara-Aspen Institute Education Fellow; a former member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships; a past member and chair of the Presidential Scholars Commission; a former chair of the boards of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and Education Sector; and a former board member of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute, The Mind Trust, and Grantmakers for Education. He is a graduate of the University of Dayton (B.A., 1970; M.A., 1972), and received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 1975. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.