Carl Van Horn

Carl Van Horn is distinguished professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Since 2013, he has been a visiting, non-resident, scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is also senior advisor for strategy and planning in the Office of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Van Horn is the author or editor of 17 books and over 150 scholarly articles and reports on American public policy and the American labor market including Working Scared (Or not at All, (2014); Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century (2015); and Investing in America’s Workforce (2018).  Van Horn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in Honors Political Science and Sociology and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science/public policy from Ohio State University.