Dr. Edward Walker

Ed Walker, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

Ed Walker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Ed is also co-chair of the MERLOT Advisory Board. He brings broad experience in cognitive science, research and development and business development to his leadership of the IMS. Prior to IMS Ed was a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and worked as an independent consultant. Ed was a Vice President of business development for BBN Systems and Technologies. As a Department Manager at BBN, he directed projects in intelligent tutoring, knowledge representation and management, distributed collaboration, command and control and logistics planning. He was also a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT, where he was a founding member.

Ed earned his doctorate in Psycholinguistics from Indiana University and did post-graduate work at MIT and at St. Andrews University, Scotland.