Dr. Alfredo J. Artiles will serve a four-year term as President of the National Academy of Education (NAEd) beginning November 8, 2025. Artiles will succeed NAEd President, Carol D. Lee, who passed the leadership reins to Artiles during the NAEd Annual Meeting this past week.

“Alfredo Artiles is the right leader to guide the NAEd through this period of profound change in education policy. I am excited to work with him as he guides NAEd in mobilizing high-quality research to improve the teaching and learning that takes place in schools,” said Lee, who will stay on the NAEd board of directors as past-president for one additional year. During its annual meeting, the NAEd also honored Lee’s tenure as president, which was characterized by critical initiatives that advanced civic learning, the integration of the sciences of learning and human development, and the longer term sustainability of NAEd.

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. He studies how protections provided by special education can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups. Current work traces equity consequences of the shifting meanings of “disability” and “inclusive education” across contexts and at different scales; his scholarship also aims to develop opportunity structures for underserved learners. Dr. Artiles is the editor of the book series “Disability Futures in Worlds of Difference” (Harvard Education Press). He has been appointed to several consensus panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Artiles is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Education Policy Center. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and was an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). He and his colleagues led the federally funded National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems and Region IX Equity Assistance Center.

The National Academy of Education advances high-quality education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Founded in 1965, the Academy consists of U.S. members and foreign associates elected based on outstanding education-related scholarship. Since its establishment, the Academy has undertaken research studies that address pressing issues in education, and its members are deeply engaged in professional development programs focused on the rigorous preparation of the next generation of scholars.