Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Michael J. Williams, JD

International Counsel

Michael Williams joined AIR after 25 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development. For USAID Mr. Williams served as Assistant General Counsel for Asia and the Near East where he provided legal and program advice and supervised both Washington-based and overseas attorneys. Mr. Williams’ overseas service included five years in El Salvador where he designed and implemented El Salvador’s National Reconstruction Program to deepen democratic and economic reforms following their civil war, nine years in Honduras working on broad-based development of macroeconomic reform and modernization of national health and education systems, and three years in Egypt as legal advisor for USAID’s largest country program. Mr. Williams holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Michigan Law School and a BA in Political Science from Michigan State University.