James Harvey

 James Harvey, husband and father, has been a bartender, truck driver, boxer, public speaker, university official, and presidential speechwriter.

A native of Donegal, Ireland, he was educated in England, Ireland, and the United States. Early in his professional career, he served on the staff of the U.S. Congress and as a lobbyist for the Carter White House. A graduate of Villanova University, he has trained school superintendents in the United States, and holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate from Seattle University.

Harvey is recognized as an expert on international comparisons of student achievement based on his doctoral research. He has organized study missions to examine schools in China, Japan, Finland, France, England, Germany, Cuba, and the Czech Republic and delivered keynote addresses on education in Beijing, Heilongjiang (China), Tokyo, Helsinki, Paris, London, Oxford, Edinburgh, Munich, and Havana.