Veenu Verma

Director of Career and Technical Education (CTE), Chicago Public Schools

Veenu Verma leads the district’s portfolio of career–related high school programming serving 18,000 students in 60 high schools. Prior to joining CTE, she led the district’s Human Resources Employee Service Center where she focused her efforts on improving customer service and decreasing turnaround time. She also served as a project manager for the district’s PeopleSoft implementation. Veenu participated in The Broad Residency in Urban Education Cohort 2005, completing her two-year Residency in Chicago Public Schools.
Before the Residency, Veenu spent six years in management consulting at Arthur Andersen and Protiviti Consulting. Her projects focused on designing and implementing strategic, operational and compliance-driven solutions for a diverse mix of clients ranging from the retail, utility and manufacturing sectors to corporate legal departments and higher education.
Veenu holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago.