Martin Kurzweil is vice president, educational transformation, at Ithaka S+R. Martin oversees a broad portfolio of research, cross-institutional initiatives, product-development, and technical assistance for education leaders and policymakers on topics such as student debt, credit mobility, data-informed retention and success, education-workforce alignment, and the use of technology in teaching and advising. He has launched and led numerous high-impact Ithaka S+R projects including signature efforts such as the Ohio College Comeback Compact, Holistic Credit Mobility, Transfer Explorer, and the American Talent Initiative. 

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Martin has spent most of his career in education research and policy. Prior to joining Ithaka S+R in 2014, he was an academic fellow at Columbia Law School, where his research and teaching focused on administrative law, federalism, and organizational governance in the context of K-12 and higher education. Earlier in his career, Martin was senior executive director for research, accountability, and data at the New York City Department of Education, where he oversaw school evaluation and internal and external research for the 1.1-million-student district. As a researcher at the Mellon Foundation, Martin studied higher education equity, finance, and sports, among other topics. As a practicing lawyer, Martin clerked for Judge Pierre Leval of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked as a litigator at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz.

Martin has published dozens of reports, articles, commentaries, and book chapters, on a wide range of education-related topics, in both academic and popular venues. He is the co-author of Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, which received the 2006 American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award.