Pedro A. Ramos leads the Firm’s government, education and social sector practice. Mr. Ramos is a well-known and respected attorney, advisor, and civic leader in the Greater Philadelphia region, and in a variety of national and international associations.
Mr. Ramos represents business, nonprofit and government executives and organizations on a wide-range of policy, legislative, regulatory, procurement, economic development, ethics, and crisis management matters. He also applies his technical legal and management experiences in ERISA, fiduciary matters, and human resources in the firm’s complex litigation practice.
Mr. Ramos has more than 17 years of professional experience, six of which were in senior leadership positions in government and higher education, and the balance of which were in two prominent large law firms. He has been the City Solicitor of Philadelphia, the Managing Director of Philadelphia, the President of the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia, and the Vice President & Chief of Staff to the President of the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a partner in the Employment, Benefits, and Labor Group at Blank Rome LLP and a principal at Blank Rome Government Relations LLC. Before being recruited to Penn, he was a partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll where he practiced for more than nine years in the Employee Benefits Group.
Mr. Ramos is active in several civic and professional associations. He is serving a second consecutive term as a co-chair of the Legislative Liaison Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Association’s state policy arm. He represents USA Fellows on the Alumni Advisory Council of the Eisenhower Fellowships and was elected president of its Philadelphia alumni group. He serves on the advisory boards of The Institute for Strategic Threats Analysis and Response (ISTAR) at Penn and on the development committee of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence based in King’s College, London.
Locally, he serves on the boards of the Kimmel Center, Project H.O.M.E., the Philadelphia After School Activities Partnership (“Philadelphia ASAP”), and the Pan American Association of Greater Philadelphia. He has served the boards of directors of several legal, economic development, tourism marketing, education, and youth boards and on the regional advisory boards of two banks.
Mr. Ramos has received numerous civic and community awards, including the Leon J. Obermayer Award, the annual Puerto Rican Festival’s Citizen of the Year Award, the Philadelphia Education Fund Giving Forward Award, and J. T. Canales Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Michigan Latino Law Students Association. Mr. Ramos is also an alumnus of the Philadelphia Leadership Exchange program, sponsored by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia.
A 2006 survey of 4,800 Philadelphians by Leadership Inc. identified Mr. Ramos as one of the area's top “connectors,” defined as leaders who connect for the common good.
Mr. Ramos is a 1992 cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), a 1987 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Urban Studies), and a 1983 graduate of Central High School of Philadelphia.
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