Johan E. Uvin, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

Johan E. Uvin is the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) at the U.S. Department of Education. He joined OCTAE in December 2009 as a senior policy advisor. In 2011, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for policy and strategic initiatives and in 2014 he was named as the Acting Assistant Secretary for OCTAE. Acting Assistant Secretary Uvin is responsible for the Department of Education’s adult education portfolio, including corrections and reentry education, secondary, postsecondary and adult career and technical education, and community colleges.

Since 2010, Acting Assistant Secretary Uvin has been a member of the steering committee of the White House Domestic Policy Council's New Americans Citizenship and Integration Initiative, which developed a framework for federal efforts on immigrant integration. More recently, he has represented the Department of Education on the White House Task Force on New Americans.

Prior to his work at the Department of Education, Acting Assistant Secretary Uvin led the Rhode Island state office that oversees adult education, career and technical education, and General Education Development testing. He started his career in the United States as an English as a Second Language teacher in Boston, MA and worked as a coordinator of a refugee program in Boston’s Chinatown. Acting Assistant Secretary Uvin holds a doctorate in administration, planning and social policy and a master's degree in international education from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from the School of International Training in Brattleboro, VT.