The Completion by Design National Advisory Committee provides the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with strategic oversight on the planning, implementation and scaling of Completion by Design. The committee is supported by Completion by Design staff.

• Steve Mittelstet, Chair, President Emeritus of Richland College
• Art Chickering, Special Assistant to the President of Goddard College
• John Cleveland, Vice President and co-founder of the Innovation Network for Communities
• Maria Hesse, Vice Provost for Transfer Partnerships at Arizona State University
• Kay McClenney, Director of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and an adjunct faculty member in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin
• Christine McPhail,  former president of Cypress College in California, founder of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University 
• Terry O'Banion, Director of the Community College Leadership Program at Walden University and former President of the League for Innovation in the Community College
• Juan Olivarez, President and CEO of Kalamazoo Community Foundation
• Burt Peachy, President of Burt Peachy Consulting
• Laura Rendón, Professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio
• Gerardo E. de los Santos, President and CEO of the League of Innovation in the Community College
• Ruth Shaw, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Charlotte
• Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor at Syracuse University and Chair of the Higher Education Program
• William Trueheart, President and CEO of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count

Dr. Nan Poppe and Leslie Haynes, CDAT’s Executive Director and Deputy Director, support the work of the National Advisory Committee.