Early Education Summit

Daniel Pedersen is founding president of the Susan A. Buffett Foundation and board chairman of Educare of Omaha, Inc., a non-profit that began serving center-city children in 2002. In 2003, Educare of Omaha, Inc. completed, as an act of public-private partnership, a $6 million private construction project on public school land with capacity for 183 children.

Mr. Pedersen also helped spearhead an $8.7 million Educare replication effort in Milwaukee that opened in September 2005. As president of the recently formed Buffett Early Childhood Fund – supported by Susie, Peter and Jennifer Buffett – Mr. Pedersen is now developing avenues for national policy change and advises other Educare replication efforts in Kansas City, Tulsa, Denver, Seattle, New York and elsewhere.

Before entering philanthropy, Mr. Pedersen worked as a journalist for 25 years – including 18 years as Newsweek’s bureau chief in Atlanta (1996-2000), London (1989-1996) and Houston (1985-1989) and as deputy bureau chief in Los Angeles (1983-1985).

As a journalist, Mr. Pedersen covered a wide range of social and political issues in the U.S. and abroad, such as being in Berlin the night the wall fell, and chronicling the fall of Margaret Thatcher and the rise of Tony Blair. He commented frequently for BBC radio and television on U.S. and world affairs.

Mr. Pedersen was born in Omaha and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Boston College. He lives in Atlanta and has two children.

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