Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander is an American futurist, author, Georgetown University Senior Scholar and the creator of The Future of Higher Education Observatory. Alexander was one of the first experts to envision the peak in US higher education enrollment and is a key contributor to the academic and popular culture conversation about higher education. Early life and career Bryan Alexander was born and raised in New York City. He earned his bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana before moving to Vermont to lead the Center of Educational Technology at Middlebury College. He then worked for many years for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) as a senior director. In 2013, Mr. Alexander began his independent consultancy as a higher education futurist. Alexander lived for many years in rural Vermont in a house that used woodstoves for heat, for which he chopped and split wood. He adopted aspects of a homesteader or "prepper" lifestyle during this time. In 2018 'Ozy' magazine referred to him as an "Ax-Wielding Futurist".