Mr. Becker is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Laureate Education Inc., the leading global network of international universities and the largest degree granting higher education company in the world; providing over 740,000 students access to high-quality, innovative institutions of higher education through its network of more than 60 campus-based and online institutions in 29 countries. He was the Founding Chairman of Port Discovery, the Children’s Museum in Baltimore, where he still serves as a director. Mr. Becker has served on such nonprofit Boards as: the Baltimore Museum of Art, Greater Baltimore Committee, Economic Alliance of Baltimore, Enoch Pratt Library, Gilman School, University of Maryland Foundation, and FIRST – an international robotics competition which inspires student interest in math and science. He established the Sylvan/Laureate Foundation in 1997.
