Edward C.T. Walker

Ed Walker is a consultant in general management strategy. He was Chief Executive Officer of the IMS Global Learning Consortium for 6 years and co-chair of the MERLOT Advisory Board and the Adviosry Board of the MIT Open Knowledge Initiative. He brings broad experience in cognitive science, research and development and business development to his leadership consulting practice. Prior to IMS Ed was a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and a Vice President of business development for BBN Systems and Technologies. As a Department Manager at BBN, he directed projects in intelligent tutoring, knowledge representation and management, distributed collaboration, command and control and logistics planning. He was also a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT, where he was a founding member. Ed earned his doctorate in Psycholinguistics from Indiana University and did post-graduate work at MIT, at St. Andrews University, Scotland, and at the MIT Sloan School.