John Agresto
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John Agresto is a U.S. educational administrator in private and public service. After serving as a deputy head of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the 1980s, he became president of St. John's College in Santa Fe. At the NEH, he worked with William Bennett and Lynne Cheney.
After his retirement from St. John´s and the 2003 Iraq invasion, Agresto worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority to revive the Iraqi higher education system. He reportedly found it in utter disarray and faced serious obstacles due to looting of supplies in schools immediately after the invasion.
According to the Washington Post, Agresto describes himself as a "neoconservative who has been mugged by reality."
He received a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University.
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