Michael P. Davidson is CEO of Gen Next, an exclusive organization of successful individuals dedicated to learning about and becoming engaged with the most pressing challenges facing future generations. In this role Michael works closely with leadership to develop and execute all components of the Gen Next strategic plan.

Michael serves on the Board of Directors for New Millenium Secondary School, a charter high school in Carson, CA. The school is committed to preparing students to become life-long learners and dynamic leaders in the competitive 21st century.

He also serves on the U.S. Board of Directors for the Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism think tank based in London set up to address the unique challenges of citizenship, identity and belonging in a globalized world.

In 2005 he concluded a campaign for Chairman of the College Republican National Committee, where he led the most successful non-incumbent campaign since 1973; he traveled to more than 40 states and was endorsed by political leaders in more than 30; he raised $250,000; he was endorsed by senior political operatives, along with Governor Schwarzenegger and Governor Perry; more than thirty congressmen, California state assemblymen and senators; and was profiled in The New Republic Magazine,Capitol Weekly, Roll Call, The Hill, Townhall.com and The L.A. Times. Previous positions include Director of the Performance Institute's California Government Accountability Council, a free market, government reform think tank; Political Director for the Republican Party of Los Angeles County. He has held leadership positions in three presidential campaigns and two gubernatorial campaigns, including an appointment in 2006 by Governor Schwarzenegger to serve as a Co-Chairman on the Schwarzenegger Campaign's Statewide Leadership Committee. In that role, he helped run the campaign's statewide “Pump Up the Vote RV Tour," in which the campaign recruited more than 2,000 volunteers from across the state in a week.

Previous positions include Director of the Performance Institute's California Government Accountability Council, a free market, government reform think tank; Political Director for the Republican Party of Los Angeles County. He has held leadership positions in three presidential campaigns and two gubernatorial campaigns, including an appointment in 2006 by Governor Schwarzenegger to serve as a Co-Chairman on the Schwarzenegger Campaign's Statewide Leadership Committee. In that role, he helped run the campaign's statewide “Pump Up the Vote RV Tour," in which the campaign recruited more than 2,000 volunteers from across the state in a week.

Also in 2005 he was the only young leader from the United States honored to lecture for the Konrad Adenaeur Foundation in Germany with more than 20 young leaders, including young Members of Parliaments, from countries all over the world. Michael lectured on political communications and developing youth based political organizations and campaigns. He has done similar work in South America.

Michael has provided commentary for CNN, Fox News, MTV, NBC, C-Span, KABC radio, Sacramento Bee, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, California Political Review, Flashreport.org and more.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and enjoys spending time with family and friends, travel, movies, trying to play guitar, and reading.

More on Michael:
Best books: 1776, Art of Racing in the Rain, Death of a Salesman, Federalist Papers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, To Kill a Mockingbird
Favorite subject in high school: AP government
Favorite holiday is Independence Day or Christmas