Ryan Craig

Ryan Craig is a managing director at Achieve Partners and formerly worked at University Ventures. Craig’s commentary on where the puck is going in education and the workforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter, Forbes, and Inside Higher Ed. He is the author of the upcoming book Apprentice Nation: How the “Earn and Learn” Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America (November 2023). He is also author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (2018). Craig’s first book was College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (2015).

Craig is a co-founder of Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships across the U.S. economy. Previously, he led the education and training sector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experience in higher education was at Columbia University (NY). Craig also founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Company. Craig received his bachelor’s degrees and law degree from Yale University (CT).