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John Kroger currently serves as an Aspen Institute Vice President and Director of the Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, he served as the inaugural Chief Learning Officer of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, providing oversight for all education institutions and programs for more than 900,000 civilian and military personnel, with a budget of more than $1.7 billion. John was also a 2010 Aspen-Rodel Fellow who served as Oregon’s Attorney General from 2009-2012.
Kroger enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17, seeing deployment on both a submarine and an assault carrier. He went on to earn his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy at Yale University and his law degree from Harvard University. His early professional experiences included serving as a legislative assistant in Congress, a deputy policy director for a presidential campaign, and a senior policy analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, John worked on cases involving drug trafficking, organized crime, and responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Then, after his four-year term as Attorney General of Oregon, he became President of Reed College, where he served with distinction for six years.
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