Dr. Bos is the CEO and a Principal Research Analyst at BPA. He has more than ten years’ experience designing and conducting program evaluations, policy studies, and social demonstration projects. Prior to joining BPA in 2002, Dr. Bos was a Senior Research Associate at the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), where he led and contributed to prominent national studies of welfare-to-work initiatives, demonstration projects serving teen parents and disadvantaged youth, and research projects focusing on the effects of welfare programs on parents and children. Dr. Bos is a recognized expert in program evaluation design, statistical analysis of evaluation data, and welfare and youth policy analysis. Recently, he has specialized in the analysis of developmental outcomes for children in the context of social interventions targeted at their parents.

At BPA, Dr. Bos participates in several research projects as a Co-Principal Investigator and advises a number of other projects as a senior reviewer. He fulfills such senior roles in the following BPA projects:

* Study of the Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC)
* Evaluation of Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL)
* Evaluation of Oakland’s Measure Y Initiative
* Pacific Regional Educational Laboratory Program
* Evaluation of the Impact of Explicit Literacy Instruction on Adult ESL Learners
* Evaluation of Upward Bound’s Increased Focus on Higher-Risk Students
* California Welfare Time Limits Study
* The SOURCE Program: An Intervention to Promote College Application and Enrollment Among Urban Youth
* Evaluation of Conversion Magnet Schools
* Teaching American History Program (TAH)
* JUMP Program Evaluation

Dr. Bos holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. For his dissertation research he received a Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM). Dr. Bos was also an Adjunct Professor at New York University, teaching graduate-level courses in Program Evaluation, Statistics, Research Methods, and Public and Nonprofit Accounting. In addition to this Ph.D., Dr. Bos holds a Masters degree in Urban Planning and Housing Policy from the School of Architecture at Delft University in Delft, The Netherlands.

Foreign Languages: Dutch, German, French, Italian