Todd Zoellick

Todd Zoellick is the Founder and President of Zoellick Enterprises, LLC.  He is an educator, attorney, author, and frequent speaker on education issues.  He is committed to true education reform and improving education opportunities for all students.

Prior to establishing Zoellick Enterprises, LLC, Mr. Zoellick was the Deputy Secretary's Regional Representative for Region V at the United States Department of Education.  He was appointed by President George W. Bush to that role in 2005 and served as one of U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' top officials for Region V, which encompasses Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, until 2009.  During his tenure at the Department of Education, Mr. Zoellick visited thousands of schools throughout the region and actively engaged students, teachers, parents, administrators, business and civic organizations, and elected and appointed government officials to explain education policy and to build bridges between practitioners and policy makers. 

Before joining the Department of Education, Mr. Zoellick was an attorney practicing with an international accounting firm and also previously worked for the Illinois Department of Revenue in the litigation division.

Mr. Zoellick has a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned a law degree from Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law.