The Madison team is comprised of professionals with a broad range of experience spanning multiple sectors and industries. Our experts share a history of experience in the public and private sectors, from federal agencies, private business and international projects, and have worked on major strategic and legislative initiatives affecting day-to-day operations of education providers in all aspects of the industry.
William D. Hansen, Chairman
Mr. Bill Hansen currently serves as Chairman of Madison Education Group, LC. Mr. Hansen came to Madison from Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Fortune 500 company supporting operations in nearly 100 countries provides business process and information technology outsourcing solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. As Senior Vice President and Managing Director, he was responsible for creating a new education line of business in the State and Local Solutions Group and for integrating the education services activities throughout the company into a strategic product portfolio.
Prior to his tenure at ACS, Mr. Hansen was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education. In his capacity as Deputy Secretary, he acted as Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Education and helped transform the agency into an accountable, performance-based organization. He also helped lead the Department to a clean, independent financial audit for the first time in its 23-year history. His knowledge and management capabilities are the result of combined public and private sector experiences and success.
Mr. Hansen serves on several boards of directors of companies in the higher education financing and business services sectors. He has also served as President and CEO of a higher education finance trade association and as a member of several state and national boards and commissions in the education sector, including the College Cost Commission. Mr. Hansen serves on four university boards/advisory boards as well as several non-profit boards including The College Access Foundation in California.
Mr. Hansen is an internationally recognized expert on student financial aid, and has written works including the concluding chapter on alternative student loans in Footing the Tuition Bill: New Developments in the Student Loan Industry and How They Are Changing the Way We Pay for Higher Education, published by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI).
A. Scott Fleming, President
Mr. Fleming is President of Madison Education Group, working on federal relations and regulatory issues for Madison’s clients. His work has included institutions of higher education, participants in the FFEL program, private investment clients, K-12 business services, and international higher education projects.
Prior to Madison, he was the lead higher education policy staff member for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions . He is an expert on student financial aid programs and worked extensively on issues related to accreditation, distance education, minority serving institutions, and international education. Prior to his experience on the Committee, Scott worked as a Research Assistant at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, focusing on international economic development, trade, and finance.
Mr. Fleming is recognized internationally as an expert on higher education and student financial aid, participating in policy roundtables at a number of think tanks and foundations, including the New America Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and international development agencies, among others. He has published a number of articles related to higher education and presented frequently at financial aid conferences across the country.
Lucy House White, Senior Vice President
Lucy White is Senior Vice President at Madison Education Group, LC where she works on regulatory and legislative issues related to accreditation, distance education, financial aid, minority serving institutions, and international education. Prior to joining Madison, she served as a staffer on Capitol Hill where she assisted in policy development for the House Education and Labor Committee and handled education, healthcare and labor issues for Representative Ric Keller from Florida, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness. During her time on Capitol Hill she worked on such legislation as the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, the Higher Education Act reauthorization, the Older Americans Act reauthorization, and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 among others. She received her BA in Political Science at Birmingham-Southern College, and received a Charles B. Vail College Fellowship for her research on regional differences in media strategies in politics.
Katie Warren, Vice President
Katie Warren is Vice President at Madison Education Group, LC, where she works in a variety of areas, including managing company operations and client relationships as well as leading the development of reports and sector analyses for school districts, states, private companies and international clients. Prior to joining the Madison team, she worked on producing political and issue advocacy media campaigns at David Browne & Associates and conducted extensive research on domestic and international economic issues as an intern at the Center for American Progress. She spent a year teaching English to refugees in Egypt, and has worked with local Washington D.C. youth in literacy training and mentorship through the D.C. Reads program and Facilitating Leadership in Youth. Ms. Warren graduated magna cum laude from the American University with a degree in International Affairs and studied Arabic and international development abroad at the American University in Cairo. She has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East region and is proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic.
Lisa Schilling, Vice President
Ms. Schilling brings to Madison Education Group a range of experience in the research, corporate, and teaching arenas. Prior to Madison, she worked as an associate director for an education consulting firm where she worked on a variety of national and international education projects. While pursuing her master’s degree at Pennsylvania State University, Ms. Schilling aided in research projects that looked at Pennsylvania’s local wellness policies and youth/adult leadership. Her master’s thesis focused on immigrant education in the United States. Prior to attending Penn State, Ms. Schilling worked for Dell, Inc. Ms. Schilling also taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and was a Literacy Instruction Assistant at an elementary school. She also taught a community ESL class. She has studied in Madrid, Spain and Vienna. Ms Schilling has a M.A. in Educational Theory and Policy from Pennsylvania State University. She also holds a B.A. in Spanish and minor in Teaching English as a Second Language from Brigham Young University.
Rod Paige, Senior Advisor
Rod Paige is a life-long educator and former U.S. Secretary of Education (2001-2005). As Secretary, Dr. Paige was an unstinting advocate of student achievement, employing “best of breed” solutions to achieve results towards the Department’s goal of raising national standards of educational excellence. He earned his reputation for seeking out and implementing innovative approaches to systemic academic improvement when he served as Dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University, where he established the university’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education. He has also shown a knack for inclusive leadership, first as a trustee and then as Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the nation’s seventh largest district. In his quest to improve the quality of education for all students, Dr. Paige is also an active member of several highly respected boards, including the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, The Broad Foundation, the American College of Education, the New England College of Finance and Business, the National Council on Economic Education’s Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce and is a former board member of News Corporation. Dr. Paige, who served as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars following his time in the administration, brings a global perspective to his work and a desire to export the best practices and products for education that the U.S. has to offer and to import those that have been successful in other countries in an effort to improve the state of education for all.
Keerti Hasija Kauffman, Advisor
Ms. Hasija Kauffman specializes in intercultural competency, education and nation building, and institutional development for international education. She has several years experience in global education development and in working to design curricula for integrative and diverse learning environments. Ms. Hasija Kauffman has consulted with UNICEF programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked with the World Affairs Councils of America system and at the Southern Center for International Studies where she served as the primary consultant for the nationally distributed South Asia in Transition program. She has developed multi-media educational materials, written curricula for secondary and higher education, and trained educators in several U.S. states to teach about South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Ms. Hasija Kauffman has coordinated more than 200 public education programs on international affairs, and has spent the last ten years studying South Asian regional development. She has traveled throughout India extensively over 25 years, speaks fluent Hindi, and conversational Urdu and Punjabi.