Ronald Cowell President, The Education Policy and Leadership Center, Pennsylvania Ron Cowell is president of The Education Policy and Leadership Center, which he established as a not-for-profit in 1999. He served for 24 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975-98) and 12 years on the House Committee on Education. He also served 12 years on the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. Cowell was vice chair of ECS in 1995-96. Previously he was a member of the National Education Goals Panel, chair of the Education Committee of National Conference of State Legislatures, chair of the Government Affairs Committee of National Association of State Boards of Education and member of the board of directors of Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities. View sessions with Ronald Cowell | 
