Don Soifer

Don Soifer is Executive Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a nonpartisan think tank headquartered in Arlington, VA.

He directs the institute’s research programs in domestic-policy areas including education, energy and postal reform. Soifer’s research has been published and discussed in many of the nation’s most influential news publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and New York Daily News. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on several occasions, in official hearings of various federal and state agencies, and appears regularly on television and newsradio programs around the county.

Soifer has served since 2008 on the District of Columbia’s Public Charter School Board, which is responsible for the oversight of 102 campuses serving approximately 32,000 students, or 41 percent of the District's students. He also serves on the board of Carpe Diem, a charter school network with schools in Arizona and Indiana that has received broad national recognition for its uniquely innovative blended learning model, that utilizes technology and real-time data to guide differentiated instruction for individual students.

He is a 1990 graduate of Colgate University and lives in Washington, DC.