Gordon L. Berlin is currently President of MDRC, a research and demonstration intermediary organization which tests new approaches to the nation's social welfare problems.

Before joining MDRC in 1990, Mr. Berlin was Executive Deputy Administrator for Management, Budget and Policy at the New York City Human Resources Administration. He also worked as a program officer and Deputy Director of the Ford Foundation's Urban Poverty program, and as a program officer and Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration. Throughout his career, he developed and managed programs to address problems associated with welfare dependency, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, early childhood development, poverty, health and unemployment, and other issues of concern to low-income families and communities. Mr. Berlin founded and for seven years served as the Executive Director of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, a Canadian nonprofit formed at the request of the Canadian government to test innovative employment-focused programs. Mr. Berlin is the author or co-author of numerous publications on employment and social welfare issues.