Gavin Payne is the CEO of GPC Advisors, LLC. Gavin Payne consults nationally on K-20 education policy issues with philanthropic organizations, institutes, non-profits, and businesses in pursuing efforts to increase school improvement, drive high student expectations with strong state accountability, effect systemic change, ensure high-quality data transparency, and advance public engagement.
He served for three years as the Director of Policy, Advocacy, & Communications for the United States at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he strove to enhance state and national education systems over the entire spectrum of preschool through college.
Previously, he served for over two decades in California as its Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction and as a Chief of Staff in the State Senate.
Mr. Payne currently sits on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the California Cradle-to-Career Data System Board of Directors. He served previous stints on the boards of the California Teachers Retirement System, the Newt Elder Education Foundation, WestEd, and Heath House.
