Stanley Litow

Stanley S. Litow is a professor at  Columbia University. Prior to his Columbia professorship, he served as professor of the practice and Innovator-in-Residence at Duke University. Stan is the author of The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward (2018) and co-author of Breaking Barriers: How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career (2021). He authored book chapters for Yale Law Review, MIT, and Oxford Press and as columnist for Barron’s.

He previously served as President of the IBM International Foundation and as Deputy Chancellor of Schools for the City of New York. Before his IBM service and the NYC public schools, he served as president and founder of Interface and in the NYC Mayor’s Office as Executive Director of the NYC Urban Corps.

In addition to serving on multiple presidential and gubernatorial commissions, he was appointed to the SUNY Board of Trustees in June 2015 and reappointed in June 2021 for a consecutive term ending June 30, 2028; he also serves on the board of Roosevelt House, The Albert Shanker Institute, and as chair of the Council of Graduate Schools’ Employer Roundtable.

Stan helped devise P-TECH, the innovative school to college to career program, as well as the IBM Corporate Service Corps, often referenced as the corporate version of the Peace Corps.

He has received multiple awards for his community service from organizations such as the Anne Frank Commission, the Martin Luther King Commission, and the Center for an Urban Future as well as the Corning Award from the New York State Business Council.