Kenneth Wong is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy and directs the urban education policy program at Brown University. He has conducted extensive research in education policy, school improvement, state funding, school governance, equity issues, innovative practices, and accountability systems. His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Rhode Island Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the British Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Kenneth has advised the US Secretary of Education, US Secretary of the Interior, US Congress, state legislatures, governors, mayors, and state and district education leaders. He has published several books on education policy and was editor of a major educational policy journal, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees in political science from the University of Chicago. Kenneth is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. His co authored book on administrative presidency won the 2021 Louis Brownlow Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration.