President, Higher Education Strategy (Canada)
Alex Usher is an internationally recognized expert on a range of fields within higher education, including student financial aid, rankings and public financing. He also has wide experience in strategic planning at both the institutional and system level.
Alex is the lead author of the annual higher education almanac The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada and the co-author of the premier statistical handbook on global tertiary education: World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding. His internationally read (and free) daily intelligence e-mail, One Thought to Start Your Day, has over 15,000 subscribers.
Prior to founding Higher Education Strategy Associates in 2009, Mr. Usher served as the Director of Educational Policy Institute Canada and prior to that he was the Director of Research and Program Development at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. He holds degrees from McGill University and Carleton University.
